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From: RSWhite@nospam.somewhere.ia.us (Robert S. White)
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/30
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In article <7g9qm9$g5f$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com says...
>
>In article <7g8drh$1q00$1@odie.mcleod.net>,
>  RSWhite@nospam.somewhere.ia.us (Robert S. White) wrote:
>>  Ah but a maintainer _hopefully_ has a smart
>>  editor/browser that knows
>> how to quickly pop up the body's source text - like
>> "visit body" under Rational Apex.
>
>This is a very important function, and I think of it as
>one of the most important features in GNAT Ada mode that
>you can get to the declaration of any identifier with a
>click (visit body sounds a bit too specific, how do you
>know it is a function -- that's the point here, right?)

  Right.  "visit body" seems to do the right thing when
you are pointing at a pure data item - so maybe a better
semantic term should have been "show implementation".

  That reminds me that I need to update/reinstall NT EMACS
and GNAT Ada mode on this home PC.
 
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