From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,55a5f36014a8c16c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: IDE for GNAT/Linux? Date: 1998/01/15 Message-ID: <01bd2202$a756bb40$95fc82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 316339556 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <34B95DD8.415C2599@altoetting-online.de> <34BA403E.5FDE@gsfc.nasa.gov> <34BC0A6E.8CDD593@altoetting-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: UUNet UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet UK) Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: At the risk of sounding slightly fatuous, why not write your own text editor, in Ada? It would be a great way to learn Ada, and you end up with the perfect editor: written precisely to your own specifications! Any time you want to alter or extend it: you can! It's not too daunting (or time-consuming) a task, if you start off very simple, and add functionality as you really need it. -- Nick Roberts Croydon, UK Proprietor, ThoughtWing Software; Independent Software Development Consultant * Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com * Voicemail & Fax +44 181-405 1124 * *** Eats three shredded spams every morning for breakfast *** Gerhard H�ring wrote in article <34BC0A6E.8CDD593@altoetting-online.de>... > Stephen Leake wrote: > >Just curious; what do you mean by "text mode", and why is Emacs not good > >for that? > > I meant that I don�t want to waste the little memory i have on my > machine (16M) for starting X. Emacs is just another program with lots & > lots of functions I do not need - too bloated for me (I�ve had enough > fatwore on Win95! and I want to learn Ada, not ELisp plus dozens of new > commands) >