Re: What Toolchain do you use?

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 18/01/2014 20:25, in article lbenvp$dif$1@dont-email.me, "John B.
Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> On 1/18/14, 7:18 AM, Bill Findlay wrote:
>> On 17/01/2014 23:27, in article lbce8v$o55$1@dont-email.me, "John B.
>> Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 1/17/14, 8:53 AM, Bill Findlay wrote:
>>>> I develop using GNAT GPL on OS X, with BBEdit and John Matthews's
>>>> Ada language module for BBEdit syntax colouring.
>>> 
>>> Recently updated for Ada 2012:
>>> 
>>> <http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/misc/bbedit.html>
>> 
>> Thanks again, John.
>> 
>> Has the latest version of BBEdit nobbled some of the installation advice?
>> 
>> I could not see a way to do this:
>> "While you're in Preferences -> Languages, select ".ads" in Suffix-mappings
>> and note that it is an include file."
> 
> Thanks for commenting on this. Both BBEdit 9.6.3 and TextWrangler 4.5.5
> have changed. I'll look for something a little more generic.
> 
>> To do this:
>> "Click on Options, and put '--' in the Comment Start field"
>> I had to double-click the language name (no Options button).
> 
> This also applies in TextWrangler 4.5.5.

Do you get as fed up as me with apparently pointless UI changes like this?
Made all the worse, of course by reducing the new interface to a guessing
game.

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