Re: ADA context sensitive editor

[nebbe@lglsun.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe)]

In article <86681A57372@annwfn.com>, merlin@annwfn.com (Fred McCall) writes:
|> In <1995Mar11.224426.23566@nntp.brisnet.org.au> wengelin@ozspace.brisnet.org.au Daneil Wengelin writes:

|> 
|> I think the price of APEX goes beyond "pretty expensive".  
|> 
|> I can't believe no one has mentioned GNU Emacs.  I use it in preference
|> to APEX, I get better highlighting than APEX gives me, and if you
|> install GNAT you can do most of the things that the APEX editor will
|> do.  Even without GNAT, it will do a certain amount of syntax checking,
|> will do auto indentation, and any number of other things.
|> 
|> And the price is much more reasonable than an APEX license.  Free.

I even work with the Apex compiler and I still use Emacs in preference
to the Apex editor. Of course I also work with other compilers and 
it is convenient to always use the same editor.

Robb Nebbe