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Funny, I was figuring out how to do this all last night, too.

The versiontracker inform is really cool - I can just make
an *.inf file and inform it, no strange flags or anything.

I'm using the Inform Beginner's Guide and it rocks.  For once
I actually have a work flow that is easy enough that I feel
easily able to learn and program in inform at the same time.
I have terminal on the left side of my 1024x768 screen, and
acrobat on the right, and it's perfect.

Here's my setup:

I installed vim and frotz using fink.  I turn 'syntax on' for
syntax hilighting.  I found the magic lines to put in my .vimrc
to turn on color.  I found a way to make a vim compiler command.
Evidently there's a way to set it so that when there is errors
it will dump me right to the line number of the error but I
haven't figured that out yet.  And I made a keymap that calls
a shell extension to start the interpreter.

So, I have a screen that has color-hilighted syntax, and then
I type :make to compile it from within the edit screen, and I
hit control-K to go right into the frotz'd game - when I quit
frotz, it dumps me right back to my editor screen.  Neat!

Curt

Mr. J wrote:
> It's blindingly fast....   couldn't tell it was working.  Add a switch
> to make it complie at VAX speed   :-)
>
> This is scary.  I now use TWO terminal programs, this and lynx.
>
>
>
>>This is great!  Thanks...
>

