Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS...

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

randomm@mindless.com wrote:

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> Hello All,
> 
> I get the impression that I'm the only one (trying) to use GPS?  

Nopes. I use it too (in linux). And there are brave souls using the CVS
versions, I believe.

> I just 
> downloaded the June 2006 GPL edition and, as usual, it's a full-time
> job trying to get preferences set and saved.  This time some of the
> font selections are overridden (they revert) and the prefs aren't saved
> unless you do Save...more...all.  The working directory doesn't seem to
> be saved in any case.  I found the exact same problems with GPS in Win
> and Linux.  At this point I am trying to set up a development
> environment on Linux.

I remember having no problems in 2005 GAP. I haven't tried to change these
settings in 2006 GPL. The most funny thing that I experience with 2006 is
that when I open my project, no window is shown inside the IDE until I
resize it, and then everything appears as expected.

> Also as with the 2005 GPL version of GPS, I cannot get it to open
> documentation in my browser.  Whether I specify mozilla or not, it
> tries to use mozilla, but for some reason mozilla doesn't open.  When I
> open a terminal and issue "mozilla file:///path.to.document " as shown
> in the GPS messages, mozilla happily opens the document.  Has anyone
> got this to work?!

Interestingly enough, this used to work for me with 2005 GAP until not long
ago (say two months?). Then it broke (without changing gps versions) as you
describe, and I don't know what caused the problem, but as it seems it
could be some external factor. It continues not working with 2006 GPL for
me, in ubuntu dapper.

> It's difficult indeed to imagine that anyone at Adacore has spent more
> than five minutes looking at GPS in the last two years...

Certainly GPS lacks the polish of other IDEs, but is not that bad IMHO. I'm
however interested in the Eclipse plugins, alas they're not freely
available. I guess that the development of GPS started at a point where
there was no evident alternative; if it were today it seems more fruitful
to customize a established IDE (like eclipse) than reinventing the wheel. I
don't know however how much a problem could be to use eclipse in some of
the supported gnat platforms...

> Thanks,
> Randall
> 
> P.S.  I downloaded Emacs Ada-mode from libre but it has only the elisp
> files and no instructions (or I missed them).  Do I simply place them
> in the .emacs.d directory or do they have to be in the user's home
> directory?  Thanks.