Re: Code completion in ada IDE's

["Manuel G. R." <mgrojo@ya.com>]

Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Mariusz <mchmiel21@tlen.pl> writes:
> 
> 
>>I am mostly C++ and Java programmer and during mmy new project i
>>came across Ada and IDE Apex. I have also tried GPS for GNAT and
>>Objet Ada and my question is such : is there any environment wich
>>could show code comlpetion for ada sources, documentation for code
>>or any info while writing code?
> 
> 
> I am not sure exactly what you mean by "code completion", but
> "ada-mode" in Emacs can write a bit of your code for you, if you want
> it to.
> 

Emacs have a word completion feature (M-/). Although is not context 
sensitive, I feel is very powerful, specially if you have loaded a tag 
file with all the public identifiers of your project. And there is no 
server delay with this kind of completion... just fast.

Additionally the ada-mode+GNAT provides identifier completion (C-TAB). 
In this case the search is confined to Ada identifiers but it is a bit 
slower.

Other nice feature is code navigation, C-c C-d over an identifier opens 
the file where it is defined, but your sources have to be up to date.

> 
>>Why Ada must be so hostile to programmers :-) It is beatiful
>>language but the ... IDE's scare me off....
> 
> 
> Emacs is a nice programmer-friendly IDE.  If you just want an
> efficient editor there's always Vi.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Jacob


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