Re: RE: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal)

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <mailman.989428626.10442.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, Beard, Frank
says...
>However, the ObjectAda (for Windows) IDE does allow you
..
>It has most of what I consider to be necessary features:

I consider a macro facility to be necessary (ever needed to space over 4 spaces
in 300 declarations, or create a declaration for each number in another file?),
and I notice its not in your list.

>But I hate the way you open a file in emacs.  I like the
>GUI approach of popping up an Open Dialog box to allow you
>to browse to a file.  ObjectAda has a Project window that

The way I open a file in emacs is by hitting ctrl-D to bring up dired-mode on
one of the file's parent directories. Then I browse down the directory tree
until I find the file by using the 'f' or "Enter" key. It doesn't sound
significatly different.

Sometimes, using emacs' file name completion I don't need to go through all that
effort. The Windows Open Dialog has no such capability.

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