From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) Date: 1999/01/29 Message-ID: <78scig$dbf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 438283971 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F1D39.64A65BC1@sea.ericsson.se> <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk> <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vhjf$nn9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vld9$qvg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <782rp0$kn6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6Oap2.16170$MW1.4028@news2.giganews.com> <783nnb$s9c@drn.newsguy.com> <784qvi$a0a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78549k$iqv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <785fo3$thj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A6F997.CA210C39@easystreet.com> <36A775B3.666042D8@easystreet.com> <788svu$gl9@drn.newsguy.com> <78a27f$rp4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78age5$p8v@hobbes.crc.com> <78g0vt$8td$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36B0FEF4.381F@gecm.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x3.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jan 29 13:20:24 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36B0FEF4.381F@gecm.com>, John McCabe wrote: > dewar@gnat.com wrote: > > > ACT spends considerable resources on updating and > > improving > > Ada mode, since EMACS is at the center of one of our > > integrated development environments, so it is most > > certainly worth sending suggestions to us. > > Well it's a pity you didn't start off with the latest > version of ada-mode before modifying it to produce the > 3.1 version on the cs.nyu.edu site. Remember that the sources for 3.11 were frozen a while ago (a couple of months), so you are not seeing an up to date snap shot here! But in any case, I would think that emacs stuff of this kind should be VERY amenable to the let-the-world-play-and-improve mode of open source software (unlike perhaps the visibility analysis circuitry of the front end), so we welcome any improvements etc, and we will be happy to post any new versions at the cs.nyu.edu site. In fact I think Marcus Kuhn will be organizing this kind of activity around the Linux port, and this is exactly the sort of area where we should see that the community can do a better job than any one person :-) The really important new functionality is the connection to the new cross-referencing information in the ali file. Even that is fairly straightforward, since the ali formats are well documented (see the file lib-writ.adb). At ACT, our work on the EMACS Ada mode is focussed on what our own internal EMACS users want and what our customers want, but this is very definitely an area where lots of people have lots of useful ideas, and where lots of people know enough technically about how things are done to contribute. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own