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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7fb807868446d767 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-28 08:48:46 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.ti.com!news.dseg.ti.com!amber.dseg.ti.com!fjm From: fjm@ti.com (Fred J. McCall) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA context sensitive editor Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:50:46 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <1995Mar11.224426.23566@nntp.brisnet.org.au> <86681A57372@annwfn.com> <1995Mar20.094234@lglsun.epfl.ch> <3knpgo$odd@rational.rational.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: amber.dseg.ti.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Date: 1995-03-28T09:50:46+00:00 List-Id: In article <3knpgo$odd@rational.rational.com> kdm@rational.com (Kent Mitchell) writes: >Robb Nebbe (nebbe@lglsun.epfl.ch) wrote: >: In article <86681A57372@annwfn.com>, merlin@annwfn.com (Fred McCall) writes: >: |> In <1995Mar11.224426.23566@nntp.brisnet.org.au> wengelin@ozspace.brisnet.org.au Daneil Wengelin writes: >: |> to APEX, I get better highlighting than APEX gives me, and if you >: |> install GNAT you can do most of the things that the APEX editor will >: |> do. >Ummm ... While I kind of agree that our editor is *not* as powerfull as >EMACS when it come to pure editing, it's a bit of a reach to say that EMACS >can do "most of the things that the Apex editor will do" with or without GNAT. >For, example, where's the traversal, semantic completion or declaration usage >analysis? If you have GNAT installed, I believe it does those things (except perhaps semantic completion, which I've always found annoying, personally).