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,d2cca2df93731625 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Markus Kuhn Subject: Re: Emacs Ada code navigation tools Date: 1998/09/10 Message-ID: <35F78966.7151CA20@cl.cam.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 389676542 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35F6F05E.9A8F2DD0@elca-matrix.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Cambridge University, Computer Laboratory Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mats Weber wrote: > In the good old days, I was using DEC Ada with the LSE editor and the compiler > generated analysis output that told the editor where the declaration of each > occurrence of an identifier was. I just had to press ctrl-D on any identifier, > and it automatically took me to the declaration. There were many other useful > functions such as list all uses of a given declaration, etc. Such features are rumoured to be better supported by GNAT 3.11p, which I hope will be out in just a few weeks. The ALI files have been extended to contain the cross-referencing information necessary to support for declaration finding without the use of an extra cross-referencing tool as it is necessary at the moment for the current Emacs Ada mode (see documentation). Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: