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From: casp_1986 on 4 Aug 2010 00:49 On Aug 4, 12:53 pm, Warren <ve3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 1, 2:04 pm, "(see below)" <yaldni...(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > > Does anyone else find it ironic that requests for assistance with > > "user-friendly" IDEs seem to rival requests for help with Ada itself? > > -- > > Bill Findlay > > <surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk > > Ya, I was thinking about that the other day when I was trying to > use GPS. I found it much easier to go back to the Makefile and > emacs. :) > > Warren I rather like GPS (the GPL edition) and have used AdaGide in the past. The only problem I have with the GPS editor is using the delete key, which I seem to use a lot. I'm not sure if its the editor or a problem with my cordless keyboard but sometimes when deleting the cursor skips left left a few characters and starts deleting the wrong characters. I suspect there is a "smart" delete function in the editor that is trying to predict what I want to do. GPS has a lot of features I don't use or haven't found a reason to use. I really like the ability to look up function/procedure calls "on the fly". Wish I had something like that 20 years ago when I used to work surrounded by stacks of manuals. I confess that I've never used EMACS despite some 30 years of writing code. I vaguely recall the first time I tried it that it reminded of the original Wordstar editor. Paul
From: Warren on 5 Aug 2010 11:25
On Aug 4, 12:49 am, casp_1986 <pcas1...(a)bigpond.net.au> wrote: > On Aug 4, 12:53 pm, Warren <ve3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: .... > I confess that I've never used EMACS despite some 30 years of writing > code. I vaguely recall the first time I tried it that it reminded of > the original Wordstar editor. > > Paul Once you go emacs, you never go back. ;-) Warren |