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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Gnat 3.11 whinings
Date: 1999/01/26
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OK. The long wait is over, and I have a great new public version of gnat to
play with. Much cudos to ACT for all the hard work and commitment. Now, let
the whining begin! :-)

Am I the only one who had to add the "c:\gnat\bin" path to my file path
manually on NT to get gnat to run?

Also, I don't like the change to the Ada emacs bindings which makes gnatmake
run automaticly when C-cC-c is pressed. This is probably more convienent for
a majority of users, but it makes things a royal pain for the rest of us. For
instance, I now have to edit a file (after finding out which file to edit) to
change any of the default compilation flags. Also, we have *multiple* Ada
compilers here. We used to pick which one by modifying that compile command
line...

I think issues like this is why the standard compile.el for emacs was written
to allow you to view and change the command line before before it gets
executed. Needless to say, I found the change from the standard behavior
quite disconcerting. Yes, I did find the new "Customize" menu, with the flag
for disabling the new behavior buried at the bottom. But considering all the
recent talk about the importance of following standards, this variance from
the standard emacs practice suprising. :-)

I think either the HTML code in some of the documentation, or the "texitohtml"
translator ACT used has bugs. For instance, the first sentence of the second
paragraph of the Ada mode documentation on my Netscape 4.5 starts out:

@item full Integrated Development Environment : @itemize @bullet @item support
of 'project files'

Well, that's it for my *first* 10 minutes w/ 3.11...

T.E.D.

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