Re: Ada Mode for Emacs

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"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 agree that it's more difficult to format comments (you could I guess
say "M-x text-mode" to go to text mode, "M-x ada-mode" to go back to
the Ada way? not tried ..)

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.