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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b742edf34a6bdf7a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 160006,b742edf34a6bdf7a X-Google-Attributes: gid160006,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada Editor Date: 1996/09/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 179917322 references: <01bb9f7f$95c50280$721643a4@Underground> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fj.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Adam asks "I recently downloaded GNAT for Win95. Does anyone have a good editor to use with this? I am just starting out with Ada programing, and I would like an editor that is easy to use. We are using VI editor at school on a UNIX system, and it sucks! We are also using Meridian Open Ada, and that is also horrible. I am using a Pentium 133 with 16MB and Win95. Can someone please help me out?" Well you are not looking for a "good" editor, you are looking for an editor that you will like, and the only thing we know about your particular tastes are that you don't like VI (many people who use only VI all the time, think it is a good editor, which should be a reminder that this phrase is unhelpful flame bait). You should definitely try using EMACS. The learning curve is steep, but the capabilities are great. In particular if you are using GNAT, it is very nicely integrated with GNAT, GNATF and GDB, and the set of tools makes a powerful combination. Lots of people like EMACS and think it is good, who knows maybe you will be one more such person. Always bear in mind that editors are like programming languages, every single one has people who hate it and people who love it. P.S. I know quite a lot of Win95 users still using my old dved editor, available free all over the place.