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The RubiCode tool for

peter_gummer — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:20:45 -0800

The RubiCode tool for configuring environment variables appears to be useful for native GUI apps, but as far as EiffelStudio is concerned it has no advantages over just setting the variables in your .profile or .bashrc, does it? Until we get a native Mac implementation, we'll always be launching our Eiffel apps via a shell.

Nice Tip!

peter_gummer — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:46:36 -0700

Yes, I really like this feature. I didn't realise it was an old feature because I only happened to discover it in 6.0!

I had an experience with it the other day. Another developer had dozens of calls, one after the other, to extend a HASH_TABLE. The developer had used tabs to line up the second argument, so that they all lined up nicely underneath each other. Now this is something I used to do a long time ago, because it looks nice; but experience has taught me that it's more trouble than it's worth because, as the code changes over time, the nice columns become a mess and tidying them up is more trouble than it's worth. Well I was trying to tidy it up after I had made a change, but I couldn't insert a tab because it kept highlighting the second argument!

I deleted the tabs, and just left one space before the argument. I like EiffelStudio's tab-to-argument feature just as it is.

Thanks for letting us know -

bayt — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:04:32 -0700

Thanks for letting us know - I hadn't known about the explore feature yet! It's gonna be my favorite too.