Re: RosAsm User Interface

"James Daughtry" <mordock32@xxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait
news:1143726646.014228.5710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand. Ignoring that source is text,
a source editor should make editing source code easier

The exact reason why a Source Editor cannot conform 100% to
all of the usages of Text Editors.


, and this
feature makes editing source code treacherous.

When you will be used to it, maybe you will find out that
this form of dedicated Editor is way _more_ secure.


It's very easy to set
the cursor, scroll, make a change, and not notice that the change you
made was on a different line than where you wanted it. My initial
introduction to this (mis)feature resulted in *valid* code that
mysteriously broke when I ran it. That bug was a bitch to find, even in
the tiny program I posted.

:))

Take a look at what you write.


For Sources Editors, the Caret _must_ be _always visible.

Why?

To save you from not knowing where you are writing to. Mind
you the very first Editors i used in my DOS days, were working
exactly this RosAsm way, and when i had to change, this was
as difficult for me, than it can be for you today... with one
major difference, that is that the old DOS way was perfect,
and that the actual way is demential, and cannot be defended
by any kind of argument.


Betov.

< http://rosasm.org >




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