Re: DEC's Ada programming support tools

[smeets@speedy.ada.cci.de (Vincent Smeets)]

In article <009475CE.DC0F9AA0@uno.edu> jncs@uno.edu writes:
>I would like to receive comments on first-hand experiences with the tools
>DEC provides for Ada development. I do not know yet of the exact nature of
>them, only that DEC has some available including a language sensitive editor.
>Any comments?

One year ago, I have worked with the language sensitive editor (LSE) on
a VAX.  This editor knew the complete Ada syntax which was handy at
writing new Ada programms.

With LSE, you can type the first characters of a keyword or some other
syntax rule and then <CRTL>E (expand). The LSE will replace these
characters by the syntax rule. When the characters identify more then
one rule, you get a list of posible choises.

One important feature of the LSE is that you can define your own syntax
(or a predefined one of an other language). Depending on the extention
of the filename, LSE uses a syntax of a perticulary language.


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