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From: nabbasi@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: IDE for GNAT/Linux?
Date: 1998/01/12
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Date: 1998-01-12T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <34BA403E.5FDE@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen says...
>
>Gerhard H=E4ring wrote:
>> =
>
>> I am beginning to lean Ada. I started on Win95, but now I switched to
>> Linux as a development platform. I have desperately sought for a good
>> IDE for GNAT in text mode. I tried Grasp and it=B4s quite good, but I
>> would very much prefer an IDE in text mode (no Emacs). There is an NHID=
>E
>> port to Linux. But it seems it=B4s C++ only. Does anybody know of an
>> adaption to GNAT?
>
>Just curious; what do you mean by "text mode", and why is Emacs not good
>for that?
>
>-- =
>
>- Stephe


plain emacs on UNIX is OK, but the BEST editor I find is Visual slick Editor, 
not only it  supports emacs mode (which is what I use) but it supports 
few others (such as vi, brief, CUA). Visual slick Editor has many other 
nice features. (such as formating how to print the source code, page number,
title on top of each page, time stamp, etc.. which can be very usefull).

this nice application is unfortunatly not avaliable for UNIX as far as I 
know, it is not avaliable for linux.  

The nice thing about VS is the ease of which I can have up to 20-30 files open
at the same time (which I do most of the time need to, I love to code :), 
and how I can arrange the windows so that in one glance I can see all 
the files, and use the ones I happen to need at the moment, and how I 
can easily format the layout of the code with a click of a botton, VS 
has many other nice configuration options, And in the rare occasion when 
I shut down my PC and restart it again, and start VS again, it 
reconstruct all my setup to the way it was, and all files are there 
to continue working on from the point I left them, I dont think you can
do that with plain emacs on UNIX.

The way I do programming now is to use VS to do the editing, and to use one
or 2 DOS (yuk) windows on NT to issue my compiles and run commands from. 
I use the MKS UNIX kit for NT (http://www.mks.com), it enables one to 
have many of the UNIX commands avaliable for NT (such as grep, find, 
etc..).  The only thing I miss from UNIX when I work on NT is the shell
commands, and MKS helps in this, it is not perfect, and does not have 
everything, but it is better than just using those silly DOS commands.

I find this setup working very well for me so far, I get to use a nice editor, 
to use emacs, and to have some of the UNIX shell commands to use for 
compiling, runnning, testing etc.. No IDE for me, I do not like IDE's much.

Nasser