Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>> Exactly, which is why Microchip should stay out of the editor
>> business. Provide hooks so it can run your editor of choice instead.
>
> You mentions "editor business". Indeed you can use whatever
> editor you want. But the IDE is more than an editor. Even you
> yourself have to use MPLAB IDE for your debugging, to use
> your ICE 2000 or whatever debugger you have.

Right, but MPLAB includes a editor.  That's what I meant about Microchip
being in the editor business.  We will never know what better things they
could have given us if they hadn't wasted time on a editor private to MPLAB=
..

Microchip needs to do the stuff that is special to PICs.  The more stuff
they do beyond that the more they are just reinventing the wheel.


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