Re: cross-platform source code editor

[Michal Nowak <vinnie@inetia.pl>]

On 2002-03-21 at 13:24 John Stoneham wrote:

>I've been searching for a good Ada source code editor and think I have 
>finally found one I can stick with. I like it so much I felt I had to
>share 
>my enthusiasm here.

[snip]

>Adagide is fine for quick-and-dirty things, but not for a large project. 
>It's also only available for Windows, which means I won't be using it
much.

[snip]

>know. So I kept looking, and then I found SciTE.
>http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
>
>I must tell everyone to try out this editor! It's avaiable for Windows, 
>Linux, and Solaris. It has many features and is highly customizable, but
it 
>is small, fast, and efficient. It's not a "visual studio" but it does
>allow 
>for compiling and running programs from within the editor. It has 
>auto-tabs, word completion, and of course syntax highlighting for Ada. The

>tools commands (compile, make, execute) for ada worked right
>out-of-the-box 
>for me. I needed to add a tool command to run GVD, but this was easy to
do.

Look like quite nice piece of software. However it has white background 
(although I suppose it should be possible to change it to black through
configuration files or recompilation). 

It has something similiar what GRASP had (CSD - Code Structure Diagram) - 
here it is just straight line from begin to end, while in GRASP it was
quite spohisticated structure. 

Code completion seems quite intelligent - it proposes not only standard 
possibilities, but also looked inside my own 'with-ed' packages and
proposed exception or procedure names from there.

I think I may start use it under Linux (I also had some touble getting to
know Emacs, although I tried). For Windows AdaGIDE still is nice option. 
Especially, that it is not so much worse than SciTE - it does not have code
completion and this simple CSD, but development is not abondoned so one day

it may have all this extra features.

Thanks for useful address,
Mike