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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, HK_RANDOM_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e82ea8a472e88bd7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trnddc03.POSTED!20ae255c!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Justin Gombos Subject: Re: ada IDE References: <1145343273.557453.50910@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:48:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.44.77.228 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trnddc03 1145371702 129.44.77.228 (Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:48:22 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:48:22 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3854 Date: 2006-04-18T14:48:22+00:00 List-Id: Mr. Bieber's answer is a good one. I just wanted to add that some IDEs are better than others when it comes to supporting external editors. Whatever direction you take should not inhibit users from using their preferred editors. Particularly users who have strong emacs or vi skills are going to be more efficient than GUI users in terms of text generation; and you'll want to leverage that. Emacs with adamode is a good IDE on its own, however I'm not sure if it would be straight forward to configure emacs to spawn instances of another editor for non-emacs users. -- PM instructions: do a C4esar Ciph3r on my address; retain punctuation.