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From: "G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: preferred Ada IDE?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:28:14 +0200
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On 13.08.14 11:06, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> >I guess that what I like most in GPS are the nice integration with the
>> >other Adacore tools, the auto-completion of aggregate constants and
>> >function calls,
> Yes, that's currently missing in Ada mode, but it is on the list of
> things to do.

Emacs' abbreviation facilities are worth mentioning here, I think,
as they operate independently of any language: one types a few
characters of a word and then cycles through context-inspired
completions using M-/ .