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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Problem...
Date: 1998/01/20
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Stephe says

<<I'd say you need a better editor, that puts the cursor on the error!
Emacs does this; I assume AdaGIDE (comes with GNAT on Win95) does, but
I'm not sure.
>>

GNAT goes to a lot of trouble to place error flags at just the right
column when it can. If you are new to the language, I would suggest
using the switch -gnatv when compiling GNAT, that way (assuming you
are working just with ASCII input and output, and not with a fancy
IDE/editor etc, you get error messages that clearly show where
they are pointing to.