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Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:34:18 +0200
From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@gnat.com>
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Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
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> Here's a real question that was not answered by the pdf files: is
> there a scripting language in GPS? One of the best features of Emacs
> (my current favorite IDE) is that it provides a very powerful
> scripting language. Some would say that is also it's most intimidating
> feature. Perhaps a less powerful scripting language would be
> appropriate for GPS.

Right, that's what is planned.
Currently you can easily change colors, fonts, define key bindings, add
menu items.
The next step will be to have a GPS shell where you have access to all
the GPS high level capabilities, and that every module could have access
to, including external processes. This won't be quite as powerful as
elisp,
but I believe that in practice, this will be enough, and less
frightening.
And if that's still not enough, as Robert said, there's always the
possibility to write Ada code to enhance GPS.

Arno