Compiling from the commandline / using external editor.

[mgillespie]

The included IDE is so horrendously bad, it's quite simply unbelievable. The number of problems, and the lack of any progress fixing them means I really need to throw the IDE in the bin and use a proper editor and commandline compile. Is this possible? Anyone worked out how?

I want to use my editor of choice (PSPAD): http://www.pspad.com/

Some of my IDE problems:

Impossible to use on Windows7, catastrophic errors, GUI bugs, crashing.

Truncated error and information dialogs on all OS (particularly bad if your change management system /project complexity makes you use quite long path names).

Abysmal Find, worse when using keyboard shortcuts, no highlight/list all.

[mgillespie]

OK, got a batch file working, so I never have to touch the CCS IDE again. However I can't seem to find if the compiler uses errorlevels on the return to determine if the code compiled correctly. I want to be more intelligent about my post compile handling.