Re: cross-platform source code editor

[john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:55:56 +0100,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Amado_Alves?= <maa@liacc.up.pt> wrote:

>> Obviously I disagree, but I have been using Emacs for about 10 years

>See what we mean? ;-)

Err - no!

>> Emacs is almost infinitely configrable. Perhaps this is its downfall
>in your view?
>
>Perhaps, undirectly, yes, because that generality is achieved in part at
>the cost of the userfriendliness of the configuration prodedures.

It's certainly better now than it used to be, with Customization
options on the menus.

>>> However it is still the best free editor for Ada on Linux, which is 
>>> funny to say the least. On Windows AdaGIDE rules.

>>Why not Emacs on Windows? I have AdaGIDE (6.26) and find it seriously
>>lacking compared to Emacs. How, for example, do you configure AdaGIDE to
>>use a non-GNAT compiler?

>I suppose you don't, as other compilers e.g. ObjectAda come with
>environments of their own which also 'beat' Emacs on the same criteria
>(user-friendliness, graphical niceness... ;-)

But even ObjectAda allows you to specify an external editor, and
provides command line tools access and an externally accessible
debugger API (I think - it was on its way when I last used ObjectAda
and I thought Stephen Leake had developed some Emacs code to use it).

>BTW in my opinion the best free editor for readability out there is
>jGRASP. I'm planning to reinstall it. Hope the few bugs it had some time
>ago are smashed by now.

That's presumably a java tool - isn't it dog slow?