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From: rick@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Rick Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Best Ada-smart Editor for Suns
Keywords: editor ada sun telesoft telearcs adadl
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Date: 21 Jul 89 06:31:18 GMT
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Reply-To: rick@beowulf.UCSD.EDU (Rick Randall)
Organization: EE/CS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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I'd be interested in hearing of candidates for the smartest Ada
editor currently available for SunOS programming.  Today I had a
demonstration of Telesoft's new TeleARCS facility, and while I
am impressed with the direction of the product, there are a
number of things I wish it did better - and still others it
doesn't do at all. 

The main things missing (in my opinion) were:
	1. Integrated Mouse Support, in both the text editor 
	   and in the facility as a whole
	2. Use of SunWindows:  the windowing they have implemented
	   so far is targeted at conventional character
	   terminals (e.g. VT100)...everything is tiled
	   in a single window via horizontal areas that cannot
	   easily be resized on the fly.
	3. Much smarter text editor, including the ability to 
	   suppress the display of Ada blocks (such as while
	   loops) so that the user can view the higher level
	   logic with less of the lower level detail

What TeleARCS does do for you is tie the editor in with the
compiler (not as smootly as Turbo Pascal, however!), allow you
to jump to referenced units or to declarations of referenced
variables - simply by positioning the cursor and pressing a
function key; allow you to browse through a quasi-graphical
depiction of the unit-dependency network; etc.  Pretty good all
in all, but much better things to come.

Any other candidates?  Anyone used ADADL?  Is ADADL usable for
actual program development?

	Rick Randall    EECS Department 
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