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From: john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:24:28 GMT
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On 14 May 2002 07:16:14 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3ce0d415.4655263@news.demon.co.uk>...
>> On Fri, 10 May 2002 15:18:03 GMT, Rajat Datta <rajat@austin.rr.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >Well, given--from what little we know--that the editor component is
>> >replaceable with emacs
>> 
>> But will you lose any functionality by using Emacs instead of the
>> integral editor? E.g, with Visual C++ you can use Emacs, but you lose
>> tons of the functionality unless you start running VisEmacs with it.
>
>Given that GPS is intended as a major upgrade for current GLIDE users,
>who of course are used to EMACS, I think you can safely assume the
>answer to this one.

I don't like to assume anything :-) but if I can assume that setting
breakpoints in the debugger etc from Emacs is supported, and jumping
to error line then I would be very happy.

>The architecture is quite open and can support
>multiple editors with full functionality. The trouble with Visual C++
>is that it is a closed architecture, so of course it is much harder
>to integrate other editors fully.

This is very true.