Re: Ada Mode for Emacs

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote in message
news:wk3cvwqdkv.fsf@acm.org...

> The behaviour you want is implemented by the function
>
> tab-to-tab-stop
>
> So you need to bind that to a key in ada-mode. I suggest S-tab or
> C-tab, rather than tab itself:
>
> (define-key ada-mode-map [C-tab] 'tab-to-tab-stop)

:(  That doesn't work.  It says "identifier not found" when C-tab is pressed
when there's no identifier and "no cross-reference available for reserved
word" so I'm guessing C-tab is redefined elsewhere.

M-tab won't work on Windows since M is alt and alt-tab is switch between
tasks/programs within Windows, S-tab is assigned to untab.

I reassigned s-tab to tab-to-tab-stop to test it, but it gives "not
implemented"!  Assigning it to another sequence "C-x\C-g" (which is free)
just gives a ping sound each time it's pressed (no text in the minibuffer)
:(  This is maddening!


> As others have pointed out, the "standard" Ada-mode tab function is
> extremely useful in normal code. Give it a try, you'll like it
> eventually :).

Sure the default will be ok, if the other tab (c-tab/s-tab/whatever) will
there when it's really needed (or rather wanted).


Chris