annotate etc/LEDIT @ 30411:41f228350eca

Got rid of all byte-compiler warnings on Emacs Load ada-xref.el before ada-prj.el, so that the Project menu is created when ada-prj tries to add to it. (ada-activate-keys-for-case): Suppress the characters that are not part of the Ada syntax. Better compatibility with else-mode (ada-adjust-case-interactive): When auto-casing is not active, correctly insert newlines (used to insert only ^M). Prevent the syntax table from being changed in case of an error (or '_' becomes part of a word and some commands are confused). Do nothing if ada-auto-case is nil. (ada-after-keyword-p): Ignore keywords that are also attributes (ada-batch-reformat): Update usage comment (ada-call-from-contextual-menu): New function (ada-case-read-exceptions): Reinitialize the casing exception list first to nil first, so that the casing exception file can be shared. (ada-check-defun-name): Handles "configure" keyword for gnatdist files. (ada-compile-goto-error): Fix regexp used to detect a file:line anywhere in the error message (ada-contextual-menu-last-point): New variable (ada-create-keymap): If the variable delete-key-deletes-forward is t on XEmacs, it means that DEL should delete one character forward. (ada-create-menu): Use :included instead of :visible for XEmacs. New submenu "Options". (ada-end-stmt-re): Correctly indent "select ... then abort" statements. (ada-fill-comment-paragraph): Correctly delete all leading '--' even if they don't match ada-fill-comment-prefix Fix handling of paragraphs on the first or last line of a file. (ada-format-paramlist): Fix handling of default parameter values. (ada-get-body-name): New function. (ada-get-current-indent): Optimized by searchling directly for an existing generic part or a statement outside of it. Handle ada-indent-align-comments when indenting comments Replaced some regexps by testing directly the next character. This results in a huge speedup on some files. New indentation scheme for renames statements. Stop looking for the 'while' or 'for' associated with a 'loop' at the first semicolon encountered. A "return" can also match an anonymous access subprogram declaration. (ada-get-indent-noindent): Ignore strings and comments when looking for the keywords "record" and "private". (ada-goto-matching-decl-start): When matching "if", make sure we are not in fact seeing "end if". Ignore "when" statements except when initial keyword was "begin". Fix handling of nested procedures. Add a recursive call to this function to skip over other 'end' statmts. Fix indentation for "when .. => begin" (ada-in-open-paren-p): Fix indentation for complex boolean expressions, where 'and then', 'or else' and parenthesis statements are mixed up. (ada-in-paramlist-p): Skip comments while searching for the beginning Fix handling of operator declarations. (ada-indent-align-comments): New variable (ada-indent-current): Change the syntax table only in the protected section, so that we are sure it is restored correctly. (ada-indent-on-previous-lines): Use ada-use-indent and ada-with-indent Correctly indent "select ... then" (ada-indent-region): Slight speedup. (ada-indent-renames): New variable. (ada-last-which-function-subprog, ada-last-which-function-line): New variables (ada-looking-at-semi-private): Correctly indent the 'private' keyword when it is the first word in a package declaration. (ada-loose-case-word): Stop searching if at the end of the buffer. (ada-loose-case-word, ada-capitalize-word): Recase the whole word even if point is not initially at the end of the word. (ada-matching-decl-start-re): Add "when". (ada-mode): Add support for abbrev-mode, outline-mode and which-func-mode Override the old find-file.el entry in ff-special-constructs since it is using the obsolete ada-spec-suffix variable (ada-no-auto-case): New function (ada-scan-paramlist): When parsing the argument type, accept spaces (as in "X 'Class", generated by Rational Rose). (ada-other-file-name): No longer loads the other file. (ada-popup-menu): Save and restore the current buffer and cursor position before and after displaying the menu. (ada-search-ignore-complex-boolean): New function. (ada-uncomment-region): Emacs21 already knows how to delete comments not starting in the first column. (ada-use-indent): New variable (ada-which-function): New function. (ada-with-indent): New variable (ada-xemacs): evaluate it at compile time too, so that ada-mode.el can be batch-compiled from the command line.

Date: 17 Apr 85 15:45:42 EST (Wed)
From: Martin David Connor <[e-mail]>

    Date: Sat, 13 Apr 85 16:28:15 est
    From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@mit-prep>

    Can you help this person?  Also, can you give me the rest of ledit
    to distribute, plus some info on how to use it?

I have put the files "ledit.l" and "leditcfns.c" on prep:~mdc.
Much to my disgust ledit.l relied on some bogus little package of
functions on HT, so I had to massage it a bit.

To get it to work, one must:

   - Compile leditcfns.c with something like:

     cc leditcfns.c

   - Edit ledit.l, changing the line beginning "(cfasl" to 
     have the right pathname for the cfns file you compiled in
     the last step.

   - Compile ledit.l with:

     liszt ledit.l

Then put the following lines in your .lisprc file:

    ;load in functions for emacs interface
    (load "//src//mdc//ledit//ledit")   ; Location of Ledit library
    (set-proc-str "%gnumacs")		; Name of editor

Then you can use ^E <RETURN> to get from LISP back to gnumacs.

Here is the part of my .emacs file that pertains to ledit.

    ;;; Set up ledit mode
    (setq ledit-go-to-lisp-string "%lisp")
    (setq lisp-mode-hook 'ledit-from-lisp-mode)

    Date: Sat, 13 Apr 85 11:26:32 cst
    From: [e-mail] (David Neves)

    This is a documentation question.
    I cannot figure out how to use Ledit.  I suspect I need some
    function on the Franz Lisp end of things to go to Emacs and read in
    the temporary file.  Is this true?  Is the Lisp job started within
    Emacs or outside of emacs?  I'm just plain confused.  Perhaps a couple
    of words from someone in the know would help.

    A related question.  I have been using a shell buffer when interacting
    with Lisp (ie. put a definition in the kill buffer and then yank it
    into the shell buffer to redefine it).  This is nice but tends to fill
    up the shell buffer with lots of code (I'd rather keep calls to functions
    in the shell and not the functions themselves).
    My question:  Is using the shell buffer "better" than ledit?  Am I using
    it in the best way (i.e. copying definitions from an edit buffer to the
    shell buffer)?    -Thanks, David Neves

I have found that ledit works well for doing programming development
when you are changing lots of little pieces of a file and don't wish
to recompile the whole file.  Of course M-X Compile is very nice for
calling up a liszt on a buffer and watching it in the another window.
Of course the interface of something like NIL is even better because
you can compile your function directly into your lisp.  But since NIL
doesn't run under Unix, this is probably the next best thing.

I have tried the 2 window method (shell in lower window, lisp code in
upper), and have found it a little awkward.  It does have certain
advantages, but most of the time, I get be fine using M-C-D to save a
defun for lisp, and C-X Z to jump back to LISP.  C-E RETURN from lisp 
is also mnemonic for getting back to gnumacs.

I hope this helps somewhat.