Re: ADA context sensitive editor

[merlin@annwfn.com (Fred McCall)]

In <1995Mar11.224426.23566@nntp.brisnet.org.au> wengelin@ozspace.brisnet.org.au Daneil Wengelin writes:

>Wayne Elliott (wayne@adied.oz.au) wrote:
>: I'm just sending out feelers to see if any one knows of
>: or has had experienced with context sensitive editors
>: for ADA.  You know the sort of thing; features like:
>
>:     - key word colour highlighting
>:     - command anticipation
>:     - auto indenting based on syntax
>:     - early syntax checking
>
>: and any other clever time-saving features/gadgets.
>
>: What's out there?  Commercial or otherwise

>APEX is good, and does all the stuff you could need in a development
>system. Unfortunately, it's pretty expensive unless you're a university,
>which you are not.

I think the price of APEX goes beyond "pretty expensive".  

I can't believe no one has mentioned GNU Emacs.  I use it in preference
to APEX, I get better highlighting than APEX gives me, and if you
install GNAT you can do most of the things that the APEX editor will
do.  Even without GNAT, it will do a certain amount of syntax checking,
will do auto indentation, and any number of other things.

And the price is much more reasonable than an APEX license.  Free.



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