Re: ADA context sensitive editor

[kdm@rational.com (Kent Mitchell)]

Fred J. McCall (fjm@ti.com) wrote:
: In article <3kvdit$eot@rational.rational.com> kdm@rational.com (Kent Mitchell) writes:

: I'm curious how you arrive at this conclusion, given that there's a full LISP 
: environment in there.  Are you saying that there are things that simply can't 
: be done in LISP, or what?

No ... what I'm saying is that inorder to do some of these kinds of
operation you need full access to all of the compilation artifacts.  While
we do export an Ada interface to most of this information (through ASIS) it
might be a little hard to access this directly from elisp.  Of course one
could always fork off an Ada program to do this kind of stuff that used ASIS.
One also might find that some infromation that one might want is not so
easy to get even with ASIS.  ASIS programs are far from trivial.  I guess
you *might* be able to do anything is elisp just like you *might* be able
to do anything in perl ;-)

: [Needless to say, I don't know that I'd buy the use of the adverb 'easily', 
: but I seriously doubt there are things that you absolutely could not do.]

: >Also contrary to what is stated above it is pretty easy to extend Apex
: >though the editor is somewhat closed.  Again, with the integration to emacs
: >this problem should be solved as well.

: Is there a released date for when this is supposed to happen?

No public release date for this but I expect we should have something in a
few months.

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