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From: Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing
Date: 2000/03/03
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"Marin D. Condic" wrote:
> 
> The Adagide editor that comes free with Gnat for the PC does a pretty
> spiffy job of cross referencing stuff. You highlight the item in
> question and use a menu option or Control-G and it jumps you to where
> the thing is declared. The only weakness it has is that all of the code
> in question needs to be compiled first in order to have all the cross
> reference information available. When you're still in development mode
> and don't have everything compiling successfully this can be a
> hindrance. But then again, I don't know how you could get a cross
> reference built without *some* level of parsing the code, so I'm kind of
> wishing for the impossible. :-)
> 
> MDC
> --

Since I find myself this week assigned to maintain a body of legacy
Ada83
code from an outside vendor...I'll join Marin in wishing for the
impossible.
Ada-Mode for Emacs suffers the same limitation :(  which makes finding
one's
way around in 600 source files in which use is not used...
-- 
Scott Ingram
Sonar Processing and Analysis Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory