Re: Ada IDEs (was Re: Re-Marketing Ada)

["David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Here's that URL:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

I use Emacs with ada-mode, and cua-mode, and a few other
things that make life easier.

This way, I have the same IDE on Windows ason UNIX.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: Ada IDEs (was Re: Re-Marketing Ada)


>
> "Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
> news:u4qx134n6.fsf_-_@nasa.gov...
> > "Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:
> >
> > Hmph. Emacs is the best IDE around, as well as being the oldest, and
> > it supports Ada very well, and has for years.
> >
> > I guess you mean "easy to learn" "point and click" IDE, as opposed to
> > "powerful and productive" IDE. Even there, recent Emacsen (plural of
> > Emacs :) are pretty good at providing guidance to newbies (not as good
> > as GPS, I'll grant you).
> >
> *** Yeah, again the ever popular VC++'s IDE, VB's IDE, Delphi's IDE and
the
> likes.  When I say integrated I don't just mean an editor that can execute
a
> compiler/linker.  Bur you are right to say that they do impose a paradigm.
> And Since Ada is much more than a simple paradigm, beyond it dare I say.
I
> guess wizards and code generators, for Ada, would need a Paradigm Type
> selection box ;-).
>
> >
> > Only for systems that match what the wizard does. One of the reasons I
> > like Emacs and Ada is that they do _not_ impose any programming
> > paradigms; they let you use which ever one is best for the problem at
> > hand.
> >
> > -- 
> > -- Stephe
>
> You're getting me convinced Steph :-)...Although I've installed LInux a
few
> times I haven't really had the change to get accustomed to Emacs and any
Ada
> extensions to it.  Can I get that for windows and does it/would it work
the
> same and as well under windows?
>
> If so, I need a URL to Emacs (for windows) and to any tools that might
prove
> helpful for my Ada coding :-).  I'm plannign a dual boot Windows / Linux,
> but I'm not there yet...so I only have windows for now (I know I'm a
> sadomajochist ;-).  Windows 98 no less :-O.
>
> I'd like to see first hand how Emacs and Ada work together.
>
> -- 
> St�phane Richard
> "Ada World" Webmaster
> http://www.adaworld.com
>
>
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