Re: ADA context sensitive editor

[Robb.Nebbe@di.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe)]

In article <fjm.82.0009EC39@ti.com>, fjm@ti.com (Fred J. McCall) writes:
|> In article <3kvdit$eot@rational.rational.com> kdm@rational.com (Kent Mitchell) writes:
|>
|> >I stand (somewhat) corrected.  I received a very good response from the
|> >maintainer of Ada-EMACS about the capabilities that are availible in it's
|> >current incarnation.  I find I was mistaken in some of my statements.
|> >There are quite a few things that EMACS can do that approach the capabilities
|> >of Apex.  In some areas it is better but there are still a fairly substantial
|> >number of things the emacs extensions cannot do.  Contrary to what is stated
|> >above some of the extensions could *not* be added with "some elisp" code.
|> 
|> I'm curious how you arrive at this conclusion, given that there's a full LISP 
|> environment in there.  Are you saying that there are things that simply can't 
|> be done in LISP, or what?

From experience I know that there are things that are too slow to
do entirely in elisp. Emacs provides a way to interface with
external tools so basically any information you can get out of the
Apex environment you could use in Emacs.

I would have to agree that some extensions are beyond being added with
"some elisp" code but they could certainly be added.

Robb Nebbe