CF| I've noticed that the IDE is a bit slow, but I haven't noticed it being
  | slow to the point of seeing my screen redrawn.  I'm running a 486/40
  | with 16megs ram, and a diamond speedstar vid card(at least 2 1/2 years
  | old).

When I open up "Compiler Options", it's rather slow (taking a couple of
two to pop up), but it's bearable and has kept me from having to learn
WMAKE's makefile format so far... 

CF| The thing that really bothered me about the new IDE is that it
  | uses the epm editor which really sucks.  I end up using the Windows ide,

See my preceding message that tells you how to change the editor to
whatever OS/2 editor you want by editing the IDE.CFG file in the
\WATCOM\BINB subdirectory.  I use QEdit/2 for my editor in the OS/2 host
IDE.

CF| can't even print from it.  Another complaint is I think the editor
  | should be part of the IDE like Turbo C/C++.  IDE does stand for
  | Integrated development environment doesn't it.

I disagree...I want to be able to plug in whatever editor I choose.  I
hate being forced into someone else's editor, whose keystrokes are
non-standard and/or WordStar 3.3 format.

As a matter of fact, I *like* Watcom's IDE, which is a big leap for me,
since I hate IDE's in general.  I've used TC, BC, MSC DOS compilers
through the years, and never used the IDEs, Workbenches or whatever they
were called...I used QEdit/TSE and their MAKE utility.  Watcom's IDE looks
(to me) more like a graphical MAKE facility, which suits me just fine...

---
 þ QMPro 1.52 þ clap on  clap off  ½¯¬­’•˜§...NO CARRIER
--- FidoPCB v1.5 beta-'j'