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: 103376,2beee871357c199d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." Subject: Re: need editor Date: 1999/09/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 520959825 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37d005ee.0@10.1.254.4> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Trace: typ11.nn.bcandid.com 936442958 216.180.14.43 (Sat, 04 Sep 1999 07:02:38 EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 07:02:38 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Elmo wrote in message news:37d005ee.0@10.1.254.4... > Hi > > I need an editor to write Ada 95 code. I have heard of an application called > NEdit. Where can this be downloaded? > NEdit may be a fine editor -- I don't know. However, for editing Ada95 code (you didn't say for which platform) there is one editor that provides a uniform interface on multiple platforms -- useful on systems with or without a Windowing system -- that editor is Emacs. Emacs is an extensible editor which comes with major modes for editing source files for many languages, script files for shells, and can even edit binary files -- e.g., executables. For Ada95, the regular distributions of Emacs have an Ada-mode that is somewhat behind that available directly from the Ada-mode website. Emacs itself is available for most UNIX (including linux) platforms from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs/ and other places. 20.4 is the current version, although I'm still using 20.3. For Windows 9X/NT, it can be obtained from ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/ For DOS, it can be obtained from http://www.delorie.com/gnu/dl/prep/emacs/ The latest Ada-mode for Emacs (platform-independent) is available from http://ada.eu.org/ada-mode/ Many folk on this newsgroup use emacs for editing Ada95.