Re: IDE's that support ADA

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> writes:

> David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
>> On Monday, November 3, 2014 12:00:44 PM UTC-5, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>> 
>>> Without an IDE that can do this I don't think people will ever take Ada
>>> seriously.
>> 
>> GPS does offer this now. Perhaps possible to adapt code from it for Emacs
>> modes since also GPL.
>
>
> God doesn't do this across libraries.

Hmm. Guess I'm better than God :).

The current Emacs ada-mode does use some code from gnatcoll for
cross-referencing. The same code is also used in GPS.

I also have an experimental implementation that uses the core GPS
indentation engine for ada-mode; it works pretty well, but needs some
work to provide full functionality.

I will certainly consider using the GPS code for completion, when I get
around to that.

Right now I'm focusing on speeding up the parser; there are people who
have files that take 10 seconds to parse with the current
implementation.

> Enacts was s bitch to get a basic form of autocomplete to work and even
> then it doesn't work every time, only for open buffers and again only
> sometimes.

What is "Enacts"? A google search for "enacts emacs" didn't find
anything useful.

ada-mode does need name completion.

-- 
-- Stephe