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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/23
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Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes:

> C-C C-r to format a record declaration, i.e. go from this:

Well, round here that means adjust-case-region!

> On my list of things to do is teach emacs (ada-mode) how to format a
> record representation clause.

I hope you're going to look at that align-regexp code someone posted
last time this came up, makes rep clauses a doddle. I've only tried by
hand so far ..

> And of course, absolutely no tabs are inserted at any time in the file.
> Tabs do nothing except reek havoc with formatting algorithms, and cause
> very strange-looking print jobs.  Thank goodness, er, I mean, RMS, for
> untabify.

Not sure if the 20.3 ada-mode does that -- isn't it optional
behaviour? I've had a whole lot of CVS diffs recently absolutely
stuffed with leading whitespace changes, what a bore!

> I'm going to be taking over maintenance of ada-mode in another month or
> so.  If you have any suggestions for me, let me know.

Great! (will you be liasing with ACT on this one? they are working in
a similar direction ..)

I'd like some customisability in the layout of created bodies; it does

  procedure Foo (params)
    is
  begin -- Foo
    null;
  end Foo;

and I keep having to change it to read

  procedure Foo (params) is
  begin
    null;
  end Foo;