GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

[Stephen Leake]

I'm getting daunted by the amount of work involved in rewriting the
Emacs Ada mode indentation engine, so I decided to use GPS for a while,
just to make sure Emacs is enough better to be worth it (totally
unbiased evaluation, of course :).

First complaint; there's a vertical bar in the editor window, apparently
at column 81. I'm guessing that's supposed to mark a right margin. But I
have the line length limit set to 120 in the project file, so why isn't
it at 120? And, I don't see any way to turn it off or move it in the
preferences.

Can anyone help with this?

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

[Egil Høvik]

I have it at 120, and it moves according to
Preferences -> Editor -> Right Margin

GPS 5.0.0

(sorry if this turns out to be a double post, I'm forced to use google groups and it borks things up sometimes)

-- 
~egilhh

Re: GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

[Dmitry A. Kazakov]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:52:15 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:

> I'm getting daunted by the amount of work involved in rewriting the
> Emacs Ada mode indentation engine, so I decided to use GPS for a while,

I love GPS, in particular, for an ability to turn the auto-indentation mess
off. (:-))

> First complaint; there's a vertical bar in the editor window, apparently
> at column 81. I'm guessing that's supposed to mark a right margin. But I
> have the line length limit set to 120 in the project file, so why isn't
> it at 120?

I set editor right margin to 72 and the source code window split vertically
side-by-side (Window -> Split side-by-side). Usually I open package
specifications and bodies in different windows.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Re: GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

[Anh Vo]

On Monday, September 10, 2012 4:08:04 AM UTC-7, Egil Høvik wrote:
> I have it at 120, and it moves according to Preferences -> Editor -> Right Margin GPS 5.0.0 

The column specified in the Project Properties is used when Edit -> Pretty Printer is invoked.

Anh Vo 

Re: GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

[Stephen Leake]

Egil Høvik <egilhovik@hotmail.com> writes:

> I have it at 120, and it moves according to
> Preferences -> Editor -> Right Margin

Ah. I missed that on my first pass thru. Thanks. 

Still seems like it should get that info from the project file.

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

[Stephen Leake]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:52:15 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
>
>> I'm getting daunted by the amount of work involved in rewriting the
>> Emacs Ada mode indentation engine, so I decided to use GPS for a while,
>
> I love GPS, in particular, for an ability to turn the auto-indentation mess
> off. (:-))

You can turn it off in Emacs as well; just never use tab, or rebind it.

>> First complaint; there's a vertical bar in the editor window, apparently
>> at column 81. I'm guessing that's supposed to mark a right margin. But I
>> have the line length limit set to 120 in the project file, so why isn't
>> it at 120?
>
> I set editor right margin to 72 

The question was; _how_ do you set the right margin? Answered in another post.

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

[Simon Wright]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:52:15 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting daunted by the amount of work involved in rewriting the
>>> Emacs Ada mode indentation engine, so I decided to use GPS for a
>>> while,
>>
>> I love GPS, in particular, for an ability to turn the
>> auto-indentation mess off. (:-))
>
> You can turn it off in Emacs as well; just never use tab, or rebind
> it.

But it springs into life when you press RET (a feature that I value
highly and that, on thinking about it, is the one I mostly use!)

Re: GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

[Stephen Leake]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
>
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:52:15 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm getting daunted by the amount of work involved in rewriting the
>>>> Emacs Ada mode indentation engine, so I decided to use GPS for a
>>>> while,
>>>
>>> I love GPS, in particular, for an ability to turn the
>>> auto-indentation mess off. (:-))
>>
>> You can turn it off in Emacs as well; just never use tab, or rebind
>> it.
>
> But it springs into life when you press RET (a feature that I value
> highly and that, on thinking about it, is the one I mostly use!)

Good point.

Perhaps we should consider a global 'turn off indent' flag for Ada mode.
-- 
-- Stephe

Re: GPS issues: right margin bar in editor window

[Simon Wright]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>
>> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
>>
>>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:52:15 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm getting daunted by the amount of work involved in rewriting the
>>>>> Emacs Ada mode indentation engine, so I decided to use GPS for a
>>>>> while,
>>>>
>>>> I love GPS, in particular, for an ability to turn the
>>>> auto-indentation mess off. (:-))
>>>
>>> You can turn it off in Emacs as well; just never use tab, or rebind
>>> it.
>>
>> But it springs into life when you press RET (a feature that I value
>> highly and that, on thinking about it, is the one I mostly use!)
>
> Good point.
>
> Perhaps we should consider a global 'turn off indent' flag for Ada
> mode.

Perhaps people who want this not-feature should just disable ada-mode!