Re: ADA context sensitive editor

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <86681A57372@annwfn.com>, Fred McCall <merlin@annwfn.com> wrote:
>>: I'm just sending out feelers to see if any one knows of
>>: or has had experienced with context sensitive editors
>>: for ADA.  You know the sort of thing; features like:
>>
>I can't believe no one has mentioned GNU Emacs.  I use it in preference
>to APEX, I get better highlighting than APEX gives me, and if you
>install GNAT you can do most of the things that the APEX editor will
>do.  Even without GNAT, it will do a certain amount of syntax checking,
>will do auto indentation, and any number of other things.
>

YOu missed the first reply to this post, where I emphatically
recommended Emacs with Ada-mode.

And you're quite right -- it's WAY cooler than the Apex editor.


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