grischka <gris...@gmx.de> wrote: (08/04/2009 19:29) > >lostgallifreyan wrote: >> Yep, drag and drop. >:) Very useful. Open an 'Explorer' window to browse > > to what-have-you, then drag it to a DOS window where it autowrites a path. > >Very useful?!? Sorry, but I really doubt your workflow. > >Before I'd type "tcc " and then open an explorer and then grab file.c >with the mouse and then drop it and then press <enter> I typed just >"tcc file.c<enter>" five times. >
When I hung around on a forum for a year or more I went from hunt-and-peck typing to being near able to argue in realtime. One guy said he knew when I was really incensed because the typographical error count dropped as speed continued to rise. :) That aside, this IS the way I work, as I described, at least until I need the kind of speed and repeatability you're talking about, then I use a batch file I can fire with a double-click. I have an arthritic elbow and it helps to use different motions. Typing fast isn't enough to maintain an even strain over hours of work, I need the different kinds of movement. If a GUI offers that possibility, I use it. >And then nobody runs a compiler from a DOS box, really. In real >life you'd use an editor or an IDE where you press one key and >TCC is done with your program before you even release the key. >Then you'd press another key to try out and run the result. > Not a problem. Ctrl/S to save, double-click to compile, double-click other file to run. The tiny differences in the procedure amount to very little compared to the differences I'd have to wade through if I switched to an editor I disliked. I use TextPad, for pretty much everything. I'm sure it has hotkey options to do what you suggest but I've never needed to set them up. I was using wxLua till now... I'd have the script in an Explorer window, use Alt/Tab to swap to that window and hit enter to run the saved script. I 'think' the sequences as single moves, it's no harder than picking something off s shelf. Limiting stuff to unique keys ends up with lots more individual keys to remember. Not to mention cluttered interfaces in tools designed according to such logic. Look at the difference in design between UltraEdit and TextPad to see what I mean. I've tried both, and TextPad always wins for me. Fewer controls, but the small combinations of commands to do stuff mean it's taster, for me anyway, it fits with how I do things. _______________________________________________ Tinycc-devel mailing list Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel