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: 103376,8811b64ee948c3e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Code Formatters Date: 1996/11/06 Message-ID: <1996Nov6.104818.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194891658 x-nntp-posting-host: eisner.decus.org references: <552nkb$u1k@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> <327A17CA.6B30@gsfc.nasa.gov> <1996Nov5.144945.1@eisner> <55q621$v6s@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> x-nntp-posting-user: KILGALLEN x-trace: 847295301/859 organization: LJK Software newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <55q621$v6s@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>, Dave Smith writes: > Surely what we need are decent development environments with > good language sensitive editors. These should be able to read > a file containing the "rules" to be used for layout, the indenting, > capitalization, etc. being done as the code is typed in. Another dimension is syntax coloring. If an editor can be set to do _only_ syntax coloring someone gets aid dealing with code but does not automatically disturb placement. BBEdit seems likely to get syntax coloring for Ada, which to me is actually more significant than the same for an editor provided with an Ada compiler, where one would expect such support. Also I would prefer editors from people devoted to editors as they will likely do a better job for cut and paste, etc. LSE on VMS of course has done Ada for years, although I do not use it because I have another favorite editor on VMS. DEC did Ada 83, of course, but those templates can be updated for Ada 95 by anyone who cares to do so. Larry Kilgallen