RE: cross-platform source code editor

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

>> Not really. I don't want to add packages. I don’t like to do it. So I

>> prefer a tool that does not require me to do it.

> Ok, but you listed "easy to add packages" as a criterium for an IDE.

No, only for those requiring/letting you do it. But never mind.

> . . . Editors are one application where Ada would _not_ be my first
choice
> language, at least for the guru-level scripting/customizing.

Perhaps but if and only if you are and/or want to be a guru in that
area. I'd say if you're a seasoned Emacs fan, yes ;-)

> Maybe there will be an interpreted Ada look-alike language for
scripting
> AdaGIDE sometime? DEC had TPU, which was at least Pascal-like and
interpreted.
> Is TPU still around?

The only scripting version of Ada I knew is BUSH. But now I've become
aware of the existence of Ada/Ed (cf. previous message in this thread).

Cheers,
--MAA