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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: LEA - Lightweight Editor for Ada - First (early) binary release,
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:44:34 -0600
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<gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:6cb99cd9-b385-4793-b08c-2f87735787e3@googlegroups.com...
> LEA is a Lightweight Editor for Ada.

This looks very promising. It might even allow me to retire the circa 1986 
editor that I've been primarily using for programming since -- obviously --  
1986. (That's probably just a bit overdue. ;-)

One immediate concern: if LEA is given a file that contains tab characters, 
it ignores them completely, thus eliminating most or all of the indentation. 
I suppose I could open the file in my old editor first and manually 
eliminate the tabs, then use LEA after that, but that seems like a massive 
pain-in-the-a$$ (and it would mess up places where tabs are used in the 
middle of a construct, such as a table in a comment). It would be much 
better if I could specify somehow that any tabs in the source files used 8 
character indentation and the editor could do whatever it wants to preserve 
the look of the original file.

I tried the "quick help" button to see what the editor is supposed to do 
(rather than trial-and-error), but nothing seemed to happen except a brief 
pause in my computer's responsiveness.

I'll try this more seriously another day (gottta do actual work now ;-).

                                        Randy.

P.S. I've posted it on AdaIC.