Re: need editor

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

David W. Glessner <dwglessn@collins.rockwell.com> wrote in message
news:37D975A7.9BBA26DC@collins.rockwell.com...
> Robert Dewar wrote:
> >
> > In article <7r67hm$mi2@hobbes.crc.com>,
> >   "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
> > > But I find for editing, and general navigation, the ability of
> > > the emacs Ada-mode to format the code in a uniform style, to jump
> > > to declarations, to produce templates for Ada constructs, and
> > > in general to do things in an Ada-aware manner makes for much
> > > greater productivity.
> > >
> > > To be sure, to take advantage of these features does require
> > > some learning, but .. there's no free lunch.
> >
> > Note that although the Ada-mode of EMACS can be used with
> > any Ada compiler, the full power of this tools is only available
> > when used in an integrated development environment that includes
> > GNAT. For example, jumping to a declaration requires the cross-
> > reference information generated by GNAT.
>
> No, GNAT isn't required.
My original posting probably was not sufficiently couched in "legalese"
to make it clear to all that we were talking about the ada-mode that
is specifically tailored to work with the GNAT tools. Here's the
relevant sentence from that original post"

The latest Ada-mode for Emacs (platform-independent) is available
from http://ada.eu.org/ada-mode/

So, given that for context, Robert is absolutely correct -- to
take advantage of the features in the Ada-mode under discussion --
GNAT _is_ required.

> Rational's Apex provides an emacs/ada-mode combination with
> similar functionality.  It looks like they modified emacs 19.30
> and an older ada-mode to work somewhat seemlessly with the rest
> of the Apex tools.  There are a few quirks, but I find it much,
> much nicer than the standard Apex editor.  I especially like
> the "Show Usage" function.
>