Re: Textedit and txt

[brbarkstrom@gmail.com]

On Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 7:52:05 AM UTC-4, Laurent wrote:
> Thanks for the hint. Why hide that in the preferences? Apple has sometimes strange ideas. Terminal an pico works too. Not really a fan of emacs/aquamacs. Tried once to learn mozart oz as language and they used emacs as ide. Didn't really work for me so I gave up.

I'd suggest taking a look at the Reference Manual section on
the Bounded_Strings package.  You can create a default Bounded_String
length in a package (say named Common_Defs.ads) using

  Std_Vstring_Length  : constant :=  256;
  package VString     is new
    Ada.Strings.Bounded.Generic_Bounded_Length(Std_Vstring_Length);

Then, you just with and use Common_Defs.  When you want to create 
a new Bounded_String, you define

  S : Vstring.Bounded_String;

then, when you want to put characters into the string, you can put

  S := Vstring.To_Bounded_String("whatever");

with that, you can append, as in

  S := Vstring.Append(S, " and something else");

get the length of the string

  Length_Of_String := Natural(Vstring.Length(S));

and so on.

This isn't really complicated, although my natural coding style is
quite verbose.  If you use this approach, you should be able to stop
worrying about whether you're working with an Apple or some other kind
of machine.  It's already part of the standard Ada packages.

Bruce B.