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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!indetech.UUCP!lrs From: lrs@indetech.UUCP (Lynn Slater) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Candidate for Best Ada Editor: try gnu-emacs-ada Message-ID: Date: 23 Jul 89 21:27:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet List-Id: Gnu emacs ada mode offers mouse support (for sunview or X), resizable windows, and a smart text editor with two alternative forms of templating. It does not currently suppress the display of Ada blocks, but with the integration of LEIF (to find the blocks) and outline mode (to suppress stuff), it could. (The editor would also maintain a continious parse tree of the program.) All you need to do this is incentive. With incentive AND good will, you could make available to everybody. Gnu emacs ada also ties to the compiler (mainly Verdix, but other vendors can be added with a little incentive); supports visual debugging; allows jumps to referenced units, variables, or sections of the LRM; supports browsing; and constructs unix sh scripts to rebuild a system. Also, like any reasonable editor, this one reads your mail or news; is multi buffer; edits other languages such as C, modula, Pascal, fortran, ml, C++, prolog or lisp; supports editing of shell command lines, maintains revision history; corrects spelling; supports abreviations; manipulates file systems; reads manual pages; talks with you; and helps you determine someones sexual purity. Most problems are fixed (not just acknowledged) in one day or less (depending upon mail turnaround time), and no support contract is needed. To help insure fast problem resolution, the entire user comminity is informed of every problem and is invited to offer solutions. If you want a feature sooner than others seem likely to provide it, you may take the freely offered source and alter it as you wish. If you do not happen to have engineers already experienced with editing this kind of source, you may hire entry level college students who are already experts. You may also turn to any of over 25 commercial support services. While this editor is not the best possible concievable editor or environment, it is as good as or better than many which are much more costly. Unlike some others, it is built on top of a real emacs instead of yet another partial copy. Even if you do not chose to use it, its features pose the minimim functionality that you should accept. (You most certainly would not want to accept less from an emacs like editor even if you would accept less from an editor based on another paradigm.) You may also want to use it as a basis of a "bang for the buck" evaluation. Name: Ada mode in gnu emacs (or "gnu emacs ada") Source: Mail to gnu-emacs-ada-request@grebyn.com Price: No charge Support: No charge, our pride does not tolerate errors in our work. Source Availibility: Automatically sent to all users Current Status: Over 75 sites worldwide Is this a Joke?: No. Maybe those who charge you for less are joking. Then why do this?: Because our desire for everybody to have a decient environment exceeds our interests in keeping it to ourselves. Authors: Lots of folks, Lets keep it that way. =============================================================== Lynn Slater -- {sun, ames, pacbell}!indetech!lrs or lrs@indetech.uucp 42075 Lawrence Place, Fremont Ca 94538 Office (415) 438-2048; Home (415) 796-4149; Fax (415) 438-2034 ===============================================================