Re: [Tinycc-devel] Re: TCC:cannot find -l"xyz.dll"

[lostgallifreyan]

grischka <address@hidden> 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.