Re: an interested business-oriented programmer

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:

> Michal Nowak <vinnie@inetia.pl> writes:
> 
> > Command line tools: what can be simpler and easier than write:
> > gnatmake hello.adb, or
> > gnatdist hello.cfg
> 
> Speaking of command lines: I suggest people use the M-x shell command in
> Emacs to run their favorite shell (even a DOS command line processor).
> It makes life *much* easier.  For example, an arbitrarily large buffer
> contains the whole history of everything you've done for days, and you
> can cut-and-paste from that nicely.

A 5000-line xterm buffer is a win too (xterm -sl 5000 -sb), is there
any equivalent in Windows? perhaps this is where the Emacs shell tip
wins.

Yes, but makes and compilations specifically are perhaps better
handled with "M-x compile" (it's great being able to do a
middle-button click on an error and go straight to the line, or even
typo, in question).