RE: cross-platform source code editor

["Mário Amado Alves" <maa@liacc.up.pt>]

>> ... Like John I am an Emacs disliker.

> The other John you mean :-)

Stoneham, yes. Sorry McCabe.

>> I agree with him that what Emacs gives back does not compensate the 
>> learning effort.

> Obviously I disagree, but I have been using Emacs for about 10 years
...

See what we mean? ;-)

> Emacs is almost infinitely configrable. Perhaps this is its downfall
in your view?

Perhaps, undirectly, yes, because that generality is achieved in part at
the cost of the userfriendliness of the configuration prodedures.

>> However it is still the best free editor for Ada on Linux, which is 
>> funny to say the least. On Windows AdaGIDE rules.

Why not Emacs on Windows? I have AdaGIDE (6.26) and find it seriously
lacking compared to Emacs. How, for example, do you configure AdaGIDE to
use a non-GNAT compiler?

I suppose you don't, as other compilers e.g. ObjectAda come with
environments of their own which also 'beat' Emacs on the same criteria
(user-friendliness, graphical niceness... ;-)

BTW in my opinion the best free editor for readability out there is
jGRASP. I'm planning to reinstall it. Hope the few bugs it had some time
ago are smashed by now.

Cheers,
--MAA