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From: john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: need editor
Date: 1999/09/14
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"David W. Glessner" <dwglessn@collins.rockwell.com> wrote:

>Emmanuel Briot wrote:

>It sounds like Apex's "show usage" is similar to your ada-mode's
>"goto references", assuming that an identifier comprises at least
>type names, package names, record components, and enumeration
>literals.  It also handles renaming.  For example, in the
>following snippet, "show usage" for package xyzzy highlights
>three items:

This sounds like a prime example of why some functions of ada-mode
need to be targetted to a specific compiler. Can you imagine the
complexity that would be required to implement the semantic processing
of Ada projects to produce this information in Emacs Lisp? Why
re-invent the wheel.


Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>