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Subject: Re: Advice on best environment for Ada on Windows
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On Thursday, 13 February 2020 05:13:16 UTC, Rick Newbie  wrote:

> So far I have identified three possible scenarios:
> 
> 1) GPS only. While GPS looks good it becomes rather fickle when you 

I stopped trying GPS because of crashing.

> 2) GPS with an external text editor. I installed Emacs and am working 

I found that Emacs cannot handle very long spans of text. I have a text file which is in utf-8 and has a few arrays of utf-8 in decimal and text form, different languages, Emacs can barely keep up.

> through their tutorial as well. I have been a Visual Studio user for 
> many years and thus I am spoiled but back in the 90s, I was working on 

I used MSVC6 at work then, it was terrible, the only good bit was the text editor, nothing else.

I cannot stand Vi(m), never got on with it.

I currently use VSCode, with the Ada language server from marketplace my own extensions, https://github.com/Lucretia/ada-vscode and https://github.com/Lucretia/ada-utilities

Luke.