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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: GPS (was Re: ada  project dependency tree)
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Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> > I wish software companies would stop calling these things "intuitive".
> > Strictly speaking, that means any _human_ would find them simple to
> > understand. My wife, who is a social worker, does _not_ find GPS
> > "intuitive"!
> 
> I find this a bit funny (from Webster)
> 
> intuition :
> 
>    2c : the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or
>    cognition without evident rational thought and inference
> 
> .. without evident rational thought..
> 
> > What they really mean is "familiar to anyone who has used similar
> > products". In this case, that means Borland C++ IDE, MS Visual Studio,
> > ObjectAda IDE, etc. It does _not_ mean Emacs, so _I_ find it
> > _unfamiliar_ and _frustrating_!
> 
> But can't you _use_ Emacs with GPS? :-)

I think you can tell GPS to use Emacs for some things, maybe even run
Emacs in one of its windows. But there's no point! Emacs is a full
featured IDE, so is GPS*. There's not much
point in mixing the two.

>    GPS language-sensitive editor
> 
>        [...]
>        GPS is also integrated with external editors such as Emacs or
>        vi.

I have not played with this, so I don't really know what they mean by
"integrated" here.

-- 
-- Stephe

*actually, Emacs does more than GPS, except the graphical tree
displays, and does it better :).