Re: preferred Ada IDE?

[mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:42:00 PM UTC+2, Stephen Leake wrote:
> mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Friday, August 1, 2014 10:39:24 PM UTC+2, pinc...@gmail.com wrote:
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> >> I'm wondering what the prefered IDE is for Ada.
> >> 
> >> Mainly because I've noticed that AdaGide doesn't seem to work
> >> properly if all the packages aren't all in the same folder as the
> >> main program you're working with.
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> > I used emacs with Ada mode, then I converted to GPS.
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> Can you elaborate on why you switched?
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> Have you tried Emacs Ada mode 5.0?
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> I'm interested in improving Ada mode.


I switched long time ago (few years).  I do not know the Ada mode version I used, but if 5.0 is fairly recent, almost surely I used an old one.

Why did I switch?  Well, there is no a special reason for that.  I tried GPS and I liked it, although at that time it was not perfect.  

I guess that what I like most in GPS are the nice integration with the other Adacore tools, the auto-completion of aggregate constants and function calls, the possibility of jumping to a function/procedure/type/... definition with a ctrl-click.   I never used SPARK (so far), but from the menus it seems to me that SPARK is nicely integrated too.

Riccardo