Re: Gnu Emacs Ada and Dec's LSE/EDT

[lrs@esl.ESL.COM (Lynn Slater)]

> I have been using DEC's  LSE for a couple years now, and Gnuemacs
> almost as long. Currently, I find LSE better (for Ada development),
> but in general, I agree with Lynn Slater's comments on the openness
> and community support available in gnuemacs.

Thanks for the plug, but I notice that you are not using the new Ada
support. (Or at least, you are not a subscriber to the users mailing list.)

The Ada support I distribute can and does do the following. (Thanks to
Rich Hilliard of the Mitre Corp.)

> The main reason I like LSE is that it supports true language
> syntax expansions. You can enter "if^E", and the editor inserts:
> 
> if {boolean_expression}
> then
> 	{statement}...
> [else_part]
> end if;

>So, maybe someday I'll add true syntax expansion to gnu, and then say
>goodby to LSE.

Maybe the time has come.  

For more info, write bugs-gnu-emacs-ada-request@esl.com.

P.S. I suspect that these template expansion capabilities might seem
rather primitive once somebody integrated Leif (an incrimental
compiler) into the Gnu Ada package,

  -- Lynn
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