Re: Mac Ada tool wanted

[evans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)]

In article <4o7rcl$nsi@news.erinet.com>, James E. Hopper
<jhopper@erinet.com> wrote:

> i was talking to the vendor of a really nice mac text editor (bbedit) that
> in its newest version supports color coding of langauge syntax similar
> to what emacs does.  they supprt a number of languages but at this time
> have not supported Ada.  When i talked to them yesterday they were mildly
> interested as its not a lot of work for them to add new langauges.  they
> told me they had only had one other enquiry about ada support and that if
> they saw more interest they would be inclined to add add support to their
> editor. What i would like to do is ask the mac users on this group to
> please
> email or phone the bbedit folks and let them know if you have interest
> in ada support on mac text editors.  

BBEdit is in fact a fine editor which I use.  However, I point out for
those who really love Emacs that there's a fine GNU Emacs for the Mac,
along with an Ada mode.  Emacs is at
    ftp://cs.cornell.edu/pub/parmet/Emacs-1.17.sit.bin

Art Evans

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