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Preben Randhol wrote:
> But what is the point? What do you save by doing this? Absolutely
> nothing. It took me 2 min to make two macros in vim which either add a
> use unit or removes it.

That's *not* the point. As is so often said around here,
Ada doesn't care about the convenience of the writer of
the code. Perhaps if you had written macros to tell the
reader of the code which withed packages were also used,
you would have demonstrated something useful.