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From: "David W. Glessner" <dwglessn@collins.rockwell.com>
Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java?
Date: 1999/12/01
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Andreas Winckler wrote:
> ... But in my opinion Apex suffers much more
> from other things:
> 
> - poor user interface (no syntax highlighting for example)

I'm not too fond of Apex's standard editor either.
Fortunately, Apex has an emacs and ada-mode that does
syntax highlighting, along with other niceties like
"Show Usage".

See apexinit's "-emacs" option for more information.

--
David