Just installed 6.2…
Noticed that vedit is gone (contacted the company - seems they have no
interest in porting their editor). Too bad, because I started to like
it under 4.25. So now I need to learn something else. I bought a book
on ‘vi’, read it, can’t stand it. I would prefer to use emacs, or a
close clone of some windows editor. (I still spend the majority of my
time in Windows). Anyone know where I may be able to find an emacs port
Also, I cannot seem to find DDD in 6.2, the little time I spent in 6.1
made me aware of it. I think that I would much prefer a GUI front end
for a debugger. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
One more question… (off topic, however). If I run a process form the
shell (like “find / -name *.c”, which will take a long time to run), any
other processes that I startup at the same priority (for example, just a
sin) seem to become stalled - waiting for the find to end. What
happened to round-robin scheduling? I know that I could run the find at
a lower priority - and I have started to do so, but under 4.25 I never
had this problem.
Thanks,
Ian Todd,
NDT Technologies Inc.
NDT Technologies Inc. wrote:
Just installed 6.2…
Noticed that vedit is gone (contacted the company - seems they have no
interest in porting their editor). Too bad, because I started to like
it under 4.25. So now I need to learn something else. I bought a book
on ‘vi’, read it, can’t stand it. I would prefer to use emacs, or a
close clone of some windows editor. (I still spend the majority of my
time in Windows). Anyone know where I may be able to find an emacs port
Cogent has done a emacs port, i don’t know the url for that one.
Similar to a Windows editor would probably be either QNX IDE the editor
there. Or for a free option, Workspace
Download workspace from
http://pages.infinit.net/micbel
Also, I cannot seem to find DDD in 6.2, the little time I spent in 6.1
made me aware of it. I think that I would much prefer a GUI front end
for a debugger. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
One more question… (off topic, however). If I run a process form the
shell (like “find / -name *.c”, which will take a long time to run), any
other processes that I startup at the same priority (for example, just a
sin) seem to become stalled - waiting for the find to end. What
happened to round-robin scheduling? I know that I could run the find at
a lower priority - and I have started to do so, but under 4.25 I never
had this problem.
Sounds odd, I don’t have that problem here… You should probably do
“*.c” though, and searching from / is probably a bit unecessary =)
Thanks,
Ian Todd,
NDT Technologies Inc.
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/Johan Björk
Also, I cannot seem to find DDD in 6.2, the little time I spent in 6.1
made me aware of it. I think that I would much prefer a GUI front end
for a debugger. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
DDD is on the third-party cd. You should also install XPhoton
One more question… (off topic, however). If I run a process form the
shell (like “find / -name *.c”, which will take a long time to run), any
other processes that I startup at the same priority (for example, just a
sin) seem to become stalled - waiting for the find to end. What
happened to round-robin scheduling? I know that I could run the find at
a lower priority - and I have started to do so, but under 4.25 I never
had this problem.
QNX4 had the ‘other’ scheduler, which provided priority decay. So if a
program used up it’s full timeslice it was degraded a priority level temporarily
to allow other programs to run.
–
cburgess@qnx.com
NDT Technologies Inc. <info@ndt.ca> wrote:
Just installed 6.2…
Noticed that vedit is gone (contacted the company - seems they have no
interest in porting their editor). Too bad, because I started to like
it under 4.25. So now I need to learn something else. I bought a book
on ‘vi’, read it, can’t stand it. I would prefer to use emacs, or a
close clone of some windows editor. (I still spend the majority of my
time in Windows). Anyone know where I may be able to find an emacs port
The third party cd has the emacs port, as well as jed, workspace, and vim
(which you will probably hate ;P)
http://www.qnx.com/developer/download/contrib
I suspect you’d like jed or workspace the best.
Dave Rempel
NDT Technologies Inc. wrote:
Just installed 6.2…
Noticed that vedit is gone (contacted the company - seems they have no
interest in porting their editor). Too bad, because I started to like
it under 4.25. So now I need to learn something else. I bought a book
on ‘vi’, read it, can’t stand it. I would prefer to use emacs, or a
close clone of some windows editor. (I still spend the majority of my
time in Windows). Anyone know where I may be able to find an emacs port
I use the eclipse CDT. If you have enough CPU and memory it is a nice
(CUA - Aka “windose”) editor (feels a bit awkward suggesting that one
must have a big CPU and a whack of RAM to run an editor, but I guess
that’s another attribute that contributes to its “windose likeness” 
.