Re: This is a simple question

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

I keep hearing how wonderful EMACS is. My experience with it on various Unix
systems doesn't seem to impress me with its overall wonderfulness. I keep
thinking it must be hiding its lamp under a bushel basket. I tried to
download and run a version of it on WinNT/PC. It wouldn't compile and I
didn't have time or incentive to want to mess with it. Maybe its lamp is
under a bushel basket that is burried in a cave somewhere? :-)

Quite possibly EMACS is the ultimate solution. However, AFAIK, there isn't
some sort of Ada-ized version of it available as a .exe for WinNT that can
be simply downloaded, install-shielded and executed. OTOH, you've got
AdaGide that satisfies that set of criteria. Since I'm not currently doing
Ada development for a living, its easier to use AdaGide for the handful of
things for which I *am* using Ada and it doesn't seem to involve nearly the
amount of fuss. If one of the EMACS proponents has a version that is as
automagic as AdaGide to get up and running and wants to put it on a website
somewhere, I'd be glad to take it out for a test drive. Mind you: I'll treat
it like the typical software end user who doesn't want to "understand" it -
just "use" it right out of the box. Anything more complex than unzipping and
install-shielding will be met with verbal abuse! :-)

MDC
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"David Bolen" <db3l@fitlinxx.com> wrote in message
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> For users of Emacs, then the speedbar can pretty much handle this,
> browsing files but also parsing the files to display subprograms and
> such, and a single click on an entry loads the file to the appropriate
> spot.
>