Re: Quick question about Ada code formatting.

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

Stephen Leake wrote:

> "Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
>>> If the IDE displayed the keyword 'procedure' (or that whole line) in a
>>> much larger font, would that be easy enough to see?
>>
>> Cool idea, I imedialtly opened my vim configuration and closed it just
>> as fast again.
>>
>> Problem:
>>
>> procedure xxx (
>>   aaaa : bbbb := mmmm;
>>   ccccc: dddd ) renames yyyy;
>>
>> I tried before for syntax folding and failed - Ada's syntax is just to
>> flexible.
>>
>> So you would need a very Ada centric IDE like the GPS to implement that
>> feature.
> 
> Hmph. Emacs can do this easily. Well, it can easily set the font to
> large for _all_ keywords (I just did that, via interactive
> customization). It would not be hard to just set the font to large for
> a subset of keywords.

Not a subset of keywords. vim can do that easily enough - configuring a new
color for every keyword would take about 15 min. The problem is finding the
beginning of a procedure body without false hits on procedure renames and
procedure specifications.

Martin

PS: I started to use vim as it is the best I could get for OpenVMS (emacs
for OpenVMS is outdated and black and white only  - yuck!!! - And we don't
even talk about coosing fonts). But now I actually like it and use it on
Window and Linux as well.
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