Re: GLIDE

From: "David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: Re: GLIDE
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:14:54 -0500
Date: 2001-07-17T11:14:54-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.995386524.14184.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x7vg0byk8eb.fsf@smaug.pushface.org

I built and installed glide from the ftp.cs.nyu.edu site, but found
that that distribution does not include the glide tutorial which
the glide startup screen wants to view.

Is there somewhere this tutorial is publicly available?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: GLIDE

> Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:
> 
> > So, I have to build it from sources, for Win98, with only instructions
> > for UNIX? It doesn't come with emacs? Does the phrase "not ready for
> > prime time" sound familiar?
> 
> A binary GLIDE consists (approximately) of
> 
> - Emacs
> - a set of Emacs lisp source files
> - documentation
> - a tiny Ada front-end that fires up Emacs.
> 
> A source GLIDE omits Emacs.
> 
> You can get along fine with just a standard Emacs (20.3 or later, but
> I'm not sure about that, the binary comes with 20.5, source works fine
> on 20.7); nothing to build, provided you can manage putting lisp code
> in your Emacs load path (or just follow the instructions).
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