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Tornado Avoidance, Part 1
I hate using Tornado. I don't really like IDE's in general unless they're very well done (and Tornado just isn't). I've found that it is easier to set up all of the tools to run outside of Tornado and then simply never use the GUI. I'm going to post several articles on how to set yourself up with a development environment that is less clunky and much easier to use. Everything I'm going to post assumes you're working on NT with Tornado 2. (Only because I have to work on NT. If you're using Solaris, I envy you.) The first thing you want to do is get yourself a real text editor. I'm a big fan of emacs. Other people prefer vi (typically clones with tons of extensions, like vim). Still others like commercial packages like SlickEdit. Whatever. Get one of these. Then, open the registry editor (Start, Run, "regedit.exe"). Find the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TornadoSourceType\shell\open\command. Change the default string to point to your editor. Mine looks like: C:\emacs-20.7\bin\gnuclientw.exe "%1" Do the same thing for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TornadoSourceType\shell\open\command. Now, when you double-click any source file (.C, .H, .CPP, etc) in an explorer window it will open the file in your editor instead of that nasty Tornado editor. comment []
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