Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS...

[M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

randomm@mindless.com writes:

> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> > M E Leypold wrote :
> > > randomm@mindless.com writes:
> > >> I would like to use Emacs as the "IDE" as I do for other languages.
> > >> Are you using the Ada-mode supplied with Emacs 21.x?  Or are you using
> > >> the Ada-mode from ACT, or some other Ada-mode?
> > >
> > > I use the one coming with Debian. Whichever version that is.
> >
> > Both versions are available; one bundled with emacs, and the more
> > advanced one in the "ada-mode" package.
> >
> > Personally I use a modified ada-mode that does not use .adp files at
> > all, it uses the .gpr files directly.  There are limitations, but it
> > does mostly what I need. I'll make my changes availale somewhere on
> > request.
> 
> Right, so can you tell me how I can use the 3.6 Ada-mode from Libre?  I
> renamed the default Ada-mode and put all the files from the 3.6 package
> in the same directory but it didn't load.  

What does it mean: "it didn't load?". You did run "load-library" (or
did put "(require ...)" in .emacs) and what happened then? Specific
errors please!

> And meta-x ada-mode didn't
> work after that.  

No surprise if it failed to load.

> It says in the comments in 3.6 that I need
> find-file.el but I don't have it.  

Never mind that. Are you sure it doesn't come with emacs already? We
are comming to that _after_ we know why ada-mode "failed to load"?

> So for the time being I've reverted
> to the ada-mode packaged with Emacs 21.x.

Anyway: Didn't I understand Ludovico as saying that the ada-mode
coming with 21.x is more advanced anyway? You perhaps would want to
stick with that version then.

Regards -- Markus