From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8bc34e14e4555720 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 11:05:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: This is a simple question Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:56:50 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9pvdp5$8im$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9pk4t7$tbm$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <87zo762rta.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9pkc0r$m5j$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9pkddm$afh$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1002650213 8790 136.170.200.133 (9 Oct 2001 17:56:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Oct 2001 17:56:53 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14067 Date: 2001-10-09T17:56:53+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "David Bolen" wrote in message news:uvght96z0.fsf@ctwd0143.fitlinxx.com... > > 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. >