lrs@esl.esl.com (Lynn Slater) (10/18/88)
*** Introducing: Gnu-Ada Mode *** Release 1.05 I have integrated a set of programs to support ada development under Gnu Emacs. They support reasonable automatic indentation, two kinds of template facilities, access to an online ada language reference manual, automatic file header maintenance, and lots of other neat stuff. I have another set of programs specifically for the verdix environment. With these, you may compile, make, load, list units, etc from either a file or a directory. You may use 'next-error to step through compiler messages with possible automatic lookup in the online reference manual. There is an interactive interface to a.db that is roughly equivalent to "visual mode". Emacs will also use the verdix tags. Some who have used both set of programs report a 50% productivity gain during ada coding sessions. This is probably over optomistic, but the productivity gain can be great. These modes incorperate many of the Ada efforts of other people (particularly Vincent Broman, Richard Stallman and S. Litvintchuck) but are better integrated with each other and have been greatly expanded in some areas. Vincent Broman is still actively supporting his portions. Most of these features could probably be ported to other ada environments. I am willing to integrate support for other development environments but cannot develop it myself as I have only Verdix. Vincent Broman has started Alysys support, but it is not ready for general distribution. I have tested the previous release against voluntering beta sites; this release should be useable by the general public. The vender independent parts of this release will probably be distributed in release 19 of gnu emacs. Those with previous releases should upgrade. The distribution is available in any of three forms 1. A complete distribution is available via FTP on spam.istc.sri.com under pub/gnu/gnu-ada1.05.tar.Z. I will keep this updated after every set of significant changes. Many thanks to Bill Wohler <wohler@spam.istc.sri.com>! 2. A 4 part mailing of uuencoded compressed tar files. 3. A many part mailing of each individual file. Please only request this as a last resort. For mailings, send requests to lrs@esl.com I am trying to keep track of all users so that I can distribute updates, bug notices, and bug fixes. If you ftp the source, please let me know to add you to my ada users mailing list. Copyrights: All of what I did is covered by a standard copyleft. Some of what I worked from was either in the public domain or was copylefted. I am not sure about the source of the BNF based templates. All code seems to be clearly based upon Gnu emacs. If any of the above features seem familar to you, please let me know. Any information about copyright status would be greatly appreciated. Happy Hacking -- Lynn =============================================================== Lynn Slater -- lrs@esl.COM ESL/TRW 495 Java Drive, Box 3510, Sunnyvale, Ca 94088-3510 Office (408) 294-2888 x 4482; Home (415) 796-4149 ===============================================================