Re: Curly bracket question

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:32:19 -0000, Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 2008-03-28, Martin Griffith <mart_in_medina@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Raisonance doesn't seem to have much of a back up system, andd
it cost me ( on my 60'th birthday) about 5 hours.

I don't get it: what do you mean by "a back up system"?

My 1996 PCB design package has 4 undo files levels,
*.bak1,*.bak2 etc, all the raisonance stuff is have a single
.bak file

It sounds like you need a real editor and a revision control
system. There are many to choose from (I'm an emacs+svn guy).

Arghhh -- the Evil -- it burns!

Sorry, I'm a vi+rcs guy and there hasn't been enough emacs bashing on
here lately. '-)

Quite agree, it's my fault, just wondering the best way to
improve my programming knowledge, the help files are
comprehensive, but uninformative

Using a real editor will help lots. One of the reasons that
IDEs generally suck is that the editor sucks. The rest of the
"features" in IDEs are usually mediocre at best, and the
documentation is usually useless.

Yup. Getting really familiar with one, ideally cross-platform, editor
is a Good Thing.

I like the way that Imagecraft handles the "problem" in their IDE, by
allowing the user to select and use their own favorite editor instead
of the IDE's built-in one. It installs with hooks for a dozen
well-known (and not so) programmer's editors (including EMACS!) plus a
spot to define a new one if none of the others match.

The downside is that features like code completion may be missing, but
there's the real upside of continuing to use one's own finger-macros.

Back at the OP: might give "indent" a try if the IDE doesn't include a
code reformat option.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
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