Make_it  1.0


Make_it is a very useful tool for doing compilations  on  a  NeXT
using  Edit.  It  was inspired by the famous TURBO-Compilers from
Messy-DOS - and it's even more easy to use !

Just pressing a hot-key (command-k, same as InterfaceBuilder)  in
Edit,  you  can  start a compilation. You automatically arrive in
Make_it and now you can easily trace down  the  errors  from  the
compilation  just  with  one mouse-click. You can even do this if
the compilation is still not finished yet,  because  the  command
runs in the background!



How to use

Start Make_it by clicking at its icon. You'll see a  window  with
two  textfields:  a command-line and a directory-line. Both text-
fields have a history, similar to that of csh, just use  up/down-
arrow  to get older values. Now you should enter some useful com-
mand into the command-line - 'make' for example!  Also  choose  a
directory  - you can do this by either clicking the Select Direc-
tory button and browsing through your filesystem, or by  entering
a  directory  into  the directory-textfield. Now click OK and see
what happens.

All the output of the command will go into a browser. If you  get
compilation  errors  or  warnings,  just do a single click to the
corresponding line in the browser - and Edit will open that  file
for you and position to the correct line.

If you want to interrupt the compilation there is the  equivalent
of  a  Control-C:  Klick  the  KILL-Button and everything is over
(well, not really everything - only the command you entered)

Saving the last command-  and  directory-line  in  the  defaults-
database  is  done with command-s, you can also read the defaults
with command-r.

From Edit you can use command-k (via the Services menu) to  start
another  compilation.  In this case Edit will place the directory
of the current open file into the directory-field of Make_it !

You can even start a compilation from the workspace: Highlight  a
file  in  the  corresponding directory (sorry, it's NOT enough to
select the direcory only) and press command-k.

Make_it is not only useful for compilations - use it with  'grep'
too, for example

        grep -n define *.c

you'll get all lines which have a 'define'.  Now  you  can  click
into  the browser and  open those files in Edit. Actually you can
use all Un*x-Tools which produce an output like

        filename:linenumber:some text

Filename can be any absolute or relative path. If it is  a  rela-
tive  path,  the contents of the directory-line will be appended.


Make_it will read your ~/.profile if it exists -  so  you  should
fix your path there !


Authors address

You can reach the author of Make_it by E-Mail (not yet NeXT-Mail,
please!):


        thf@zelator.in-berlin.de


or by air-mail to the following address


        Thomas Funke         
	Gasteinerstr. 29         
	1000 Berlin 31
	*Germany*