Re: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal)

[sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)]

Marin David Condic (marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com) wrote:

: It seems you are suggesting some version of hyperlinking a document to a
: source code file. I know of no systems built around that sort of technology.

Might I suggest considering PRCS[1],
wich has, among other things that you might say it lacks,
the power of the `prcs execute` command?
It is not automatically doing magic, but from
what I have seen and used, its possibilities are
largely unexplored.

As for comments, it virtually kills RCSs file version comments,
and instead allows a checkin to be annotated in "versions"
(a project's control file). At first I had been missing the
comments per file, but no longer, since the "version", or well
defined parts thereof, can
actually serve as a kind of hyperlinkable document.

Some things could be automated (using the PRCS shell and/or
programming interface), but for now I get away with discipline.



Georg Bauhaus

[1] designed by Paul Hilfinger, whom you no doubt know :-)
http://xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/prcs.html