Hi Moshack and Frank-
Man, I love that Tom Rush lyric. I reckon us geezers (66 going on 67) just can't get used to the pace of button poking.
There is somewhere floating around a NASM IDE that I saw first as a CD in a book by Jeff Duntemann ("Assembly Language Step by Step", Wiley publishers). It lets you click on "Make".
But, I really think that Make (GCC) (or NMAKE, Microsoft) is the best all around approach. It gives you the control you want and once the makefile is coded, which usually doesn't take long, you can do the build with just a couple of keystrokes. My experience, for example, with Visual C is that you end up having to set a lot of switches in various confusing windows in order to do anything outside the ordinary is you want to use the "Make" button.
Regards,
Mark Allyn