Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS...

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Hello

randomm@mindless.com wrote:

> I get the impression that I'm the only one (trying) to use GPS?

No I use the GPS as well.

> I just 
> downloaded the June 2006 GPL edition and, as usual, it's a full-time
> job trying to get preferences set and saved.  This time some of the
> font selections are overridden (they revert) and the prefs aren't saved
> unless you do Save...more...all.  The working directory doesn't seem to
> be saved in any case.  I found the exact same problems with GPS in Win
> and Linux.  At this point I am trying to set up a development
> environment on Linux.

The GPS has been bad about saving then setting. Best is to open the settings
file with vim and then hack the setting in the way you want it.

> Also as with the 2005 GPL version of GPS, I cannot get it to open
> documentation in my browser.  Whether I specify mozilla or not, it
> tries to use mozilla, but for some reason mozilla doesn't open.  When I
> open a terminal and issue "mozilla file:///path.to.document " as shown
> in the GPS messages, mozilla happily opens the document.  Has anyone
> got this to work?!

I noticed that as well.

> It's difficult indeed to imagine that anyone at Adacore has spent more
> than five minutes looking at GPS in the last two years...

Or maybe the default setting is just the way they want it and if you don't
like the AdaCore defaults then tuff luck.

But then: When they get the OpenVMS connectivity running I am going to
plaster them with bug reports - via GNAT-Tracker of course :-].

Martin

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