From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,91ec3b1c30b751e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-03 08:17:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pipehawk.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: cross-platform source code editor Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:17:57 GMT Organization: Emrad Ltd Message-ID: <3cab2a7e.30287551@news.demon.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1017850605 nnrp-14:15900 NO-IDENT pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22057 Date: 2002-04-03T16:17:57+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:55:56 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Amado_Alves?= 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?