[Dev-C++] One bug, one solution and one feature request

[Anders B. <And...@te...>]

One bug, one solution and one feature request:

1) Dev + cygwin works, even debugging, but only with a tweak
2) A small bug (?) appears to be present in the Debug Output window
3) Pair matching highlight on-the-fly, please?!

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1)

I had a problem with Dev+Cygwin: I could successfully compile with 
Cygwin, but not use Dev (4.9.8.0) to debug (I didn't get any blue line). 
Since I have a lot of pre-compiled libs in Cygwin, I was hoping to solve 
the problem short of having to recompile them.

Now it turns out that the solution is simple: just install Mingw and 
borrow its gdb.exe, copy it to cygwin\bin under a new name, and tell Dev 
to debug using this gdb. But one can still compile with Cygwin, and in 
fact remove Mingw altogether after this.

According to the Dev homepage, "Dev-C++ can also be used in combination 
with Cygwin", which thus is only partially true, unless one applies this 
tweak. This could therefore be useful info for a lot of people out there!

Including support for the Cygwin gdb is probably simple, since as far as 
I can judge the only (?) difference compared to the Mingw gdb is the 
output end-of-lines, which appear to be Unix-style for Cygwin but 
Dos-style for Mingw.

2)

Potential bug in 4.9.8.0: In the debug output (where I see what gdb is 
saying), I am supposed to be able to right-click and choose Copy or 
Clear, right? Well, both options are greyed out, always.

3)

It would be REALLY useful to have pair matching of () [] {} on the fly. 
The present "match pairs" feature is, in my humble opinion, not very 
useful (or I don't understand how to use it, but it seems it just marks 
pairs as I move past them with the cursor using the arrow keys).

What is needed is a good way to check that I have as many ( as ) and so 
on. The simplest way would be that every time a } ] or ) is typed, the 
editor shows (prefereably by color-flashing) the corresponding ([{ for a 
while (until another key is pressed, I guess).

Most other coding editors (Rhide, Emacs, Winedt, fte) have this feature, 
and I think it is virtually essential.

/Anders Blom