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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada Mode for Emacs
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 11:43:42 +0000 (UTC)
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On 09 Jun 2002 12:08:53 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:
> "chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:
> 
>> This is most annoying since it doesn't allow information to be
>> formatted in a neat way, comments in particular:
>> 
>> e.g.
>> 
>> -- author:        Bob
>> -- date:          7th June 2002
>> -- last modified: 7th June 2002
>> 
>> 
>> The alternative emacs is currenlty imposing just looks silly.  Any
>> ideas?

I think you will get more help on a emacs news group.

> However, having been using ada-mode and cc-mode (well, most
> programming modes) for quite a while now (not sure how long, 6 years?)
> I find the way they behave so very helpful that I'm prepared to put up
> with the minor inconvenience of comment formatting of the sort you
> describe.

In the "old days" when I used Emacs (before converting to vim) I seem to
remember that one of the modes had a function that overrode this the
indentation. I think the macro was tied to Ctrl-Tab or sth and it put in
spaces in stead of a Tab character. So that in the case above one just
press Ctrl-Tab to jump to the place where the name should be written.

If there isn't such a macro I guess some at a emacs news group will give
you one in two seconds time :-)

Preben