From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7fb807868446d767 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robb.Nebbe@di.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe) Subject: Re: ADA context sensitive editor Date: 1995/03/29 Message-ID: <1995Mar29.105616@di.epfl.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 100540681 distribution: world sender: nebbe@lglsun3.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe) references: <1995Mar11.224426.23566@nntp.brisnet.org.au> <86681A57372@annwfn.com> <3kvdit$eot@rational.rational.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , fjm@ti.com (Fred J. McCall) writes: |> In article <3kvdit$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