Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS...

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

randomm@mindless.com writes:

> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> M E Leypold wrote :
>> > randomm@mindless.com writes:
>> >> I would like to use Emacs as the "IDE" as I do for other languages.
>> >> Are you using the Ada-mode supplied with Emacs 21.x?  Or are you using
>> >> the Ada-mode from ACT, or some other Ada-mode?
>> >
>> > I use the one coming with Debian. Whichever version that is.
>>
>> Both versions are available; one bundled with emacs, and the more
>> advanced one in the "ada-mode" package.
>>
>> Personally I use a modified ada-mode that does not use .adp files at
>> all, it uses the .gpr files directly.  There are limitations, but it
>> does mostly what I need. I'll make my changes availale somewhere on
>> request.
>
> Right, so can you tell me how I can use the 3.6 Ada-mode from Libre?

apt-get install ada-mode

The post-installation script takes care of the rest.

> I renamed the default Ada-mode and put all the files from the 3.6
> package in the same directory but it didn't load.  And meta-x
> ada-mode didn't work after that.  It says in the comments in 3.6
> that I need find-file.el but I don't have it.  So for the time being
> I've reverted to the ada-mode packaged with Emacs 21.x.

$ locate find-file.el
/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/find-file.el

That's in package emacs21-el.  If this package is not installed, you
have a problem with your system.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.