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Got rid of all byte-compiler warnings on Emacs.
Add to the menu when the file is loaded, not in ada-mode-hook.
Add -toolbar to the default ddd command Switches moved from
ada-prj-default-comp-cmd and ada-prj-default-make-cmd to
ada-prj-default-comp-opt
(ada-add-ada-menu): Remove the map and name parameters Add the Ada
Reference Manual to the menu
(ada-check-current): rewritten as a call to ada-compile-current
(ada-compile): Removed.
(ada-compile-application, ada-compile-current, ada-check-current):
Set the compilation-search-path so that compile.el automatically
finds the sources in src_dir. Automatic scrollong of the
compilation buffer. C-uC-cC-c asks for confirmation before
compiling
(ada-compile-current): New parameter, prj-field
(ada-complete-identifier): Load the .ali file before doing
processing
(ada-find-ali-file-in-dir): prepend build_dir to obj_dir to
conform to gnatmake's behavior.
(ada-find-file-in-dir): New function
(ada-find-references): Set the environment variables for gnatfind
(ada-find-src-file-in-dir): New function.
(ada-first-non-nil): Removed
(ada-gdb-application): Add support for jdb, the java debugger.
(ada-get-ada-file-name): Load the original-file first if not done
yet.
(ada-get-all-references): Handles the new ali syntax (parent types
are found between <>).
(ada-initialize-runtime-library): New function
(ada-mode-hook): Always load a project file when a file is opened,
so that the casing exceptions are correctly read.
(ada-operator-re): Add all missing operators ("abs", "rem", "**").
(ada-parse-prj-file): Use find-file-noselect instead of find-file
to open the project file, since the latter does not work with
speedbar Get default values before loading the prj file, or the
default executable file name is wrong. Use the absolute value of
src_dir to initialize ada-search-directories and
compilation-search-path,... Add the standard runtime library to
the search path for find-file.
(ada-prj-default-debugger): Was missing an opening '{'
(ada-prj-default-bind-opt, ada-prj-default-link-opt): New
variables.
(ada-prj-default-gnatmake-opt): New variable
(ada-prj-find-prj-file): Handles non-file buffers For non-Ada
buffers, the project file is the default one Save the windows
configuration before displaying the menu.
(ada-prj-src-dir, ada-prj-obj-dir, ada-prj-comp-opt,...): Removed
(ada-read-identifier): Fix xrefs on operators (for "mod", "and",
...) regexp-quote identifiers names to support operators +,
-,... in regexps.
(ada-remote): New function.
(ada-run-application): Erase the output buffer before starting the
run Support remote execution of the application. Use
call-process, or the arguments are incorrectly parsed
(ada-set-default-project-file): Reread the content of the active
project file, not the one from the current buffer When a project
file is set as the default project, all directories are
automatically associated with it.
(ada-set-environment): New function
(ada-treat-cmd-string): New special variable ${current}
(ada-treat-cmd-string): Revised. The substitution is now done for
any ${...} substring
(ada-xref-current): If no body was found, compiles the spec
instead. Setup ADA_{SOURCE,OBJECTS}_PATH before running the
compiler to get rid of command line length limitations.
(ada-xref-get-project-field): New function
(ada-xref-project-files): New variable
(ada-xref-runtime-library-specs-path)
(ada-xref-runtime-library-ali-path): New variables
(ada-xref-set-default-prj-values): Default run command now does a
cd to the build directory. New field: main_unit Provide a default
file name even if the current buffer has no prj file.
author | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> |
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date | Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:13:11 +0000 |
parents | e96ffe544684 |
children | 01772baf50a3 |
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Censoring my Software Richard Stallman [From Datamation, 1 March 1996] Last summer, a few clever legislators proposed a bill to "prohibit pornography" on the Internet. Last fall, right-wing Christians made this cause their own. Last week, President Clinton signed the bill, and we lost the freedom of the press for the public library of the future. This week, I'm censoring GNU Emacs. No, GNU Emacs does not contain pornography. It is a software package, an award-winning extensible and programmable text editor. But the law that was passed applies to far more than pornography. It prohibits "indecent" speech, which can include anything from famous poems, to masterpieces hanging in the Louvre, to advice about safe sex...to software. Naturally, there was a lot of opposition to this bill. Not only from people who use the Internet, and people who appreciate erotica, but from everyone who cares about freedom of the press. But every time we tried to tell the public what was at stake, the forces of censorship responded with a lie: they told the public that the issue was simply pornography. By embedding this lie as a presupposition in their statements about the issue, they succeeded in misinforming the public. So here I am, censoring my software. You see, Emacs contains a version of the famous "doctor program", a.k.a. Eliza, originally developed by Professor Weizenbaum at MIT. This is the program that imitates a Rogerian psychotherapist. The user talks to the program, and the program responds--by playing back the user's own statements, and by recognizing a long list of particular words. The Emacs doctor program was set up to recognize many common curse words, and respond with an appropriately cute message such as, "Would you please watch your tongue?" or "Let's not be vulgar." In order to do this, it had to have a list of curse words. That means the source code for the program was indecent. Because of the censorship law, I had to remove this feature. (I replaced it with a message announcing that the program has been censored for your protection.) The new version of the doctor doesn't recognize the indecent words. If you curse at it, it curses right back to you--for lack of knowing better. Now that people are facing the threat of two years in prison for indecent network postings, it would be helpful if they could access precise rules via the Internet for how to avoid imprisonment. However, this is impossible. The rules would have to mention the forbidden words, so posting them on the Internet would be against the rules. Of course, I'm making an assumption about just what "indecent" means. I have to do this, because nobody knows for sure. The most obvious possibile meaning is the meaning it has for television, so I'm using that as a tentative assumption. However, there is a good chance that our courts will reject that interpretation of the law as unconstitutional. We can hope that the courts will recognize the Internet as a medium of publication like books and magazines. If they do, they will entirely reject any law prohibiting "indecent" publications on the Internet. What really worries me is that the courts might take a muddled in-between escape route--by choosing another interpretation of "indecent", one that permits the doctor program or a statement of the decency rules, but prohibits some of the books that children can browse through in the public library and the bookstore. Over the years, as the Internet replaces the public library and the bookstore, some of our freedom of the press will be lost. Just a few weeks ago, another country imposed censorship on the Internet. That was China. We don't think well of China in this country--its government doesn't respect basic freedoms. But how well does our government respect them? And do you care enough to preserve them here? If you care, stay in touch with the Voters Telecommunications Watch. Look in their Web site http://www.vtw.org/ for background information and political action recommendations. Censorship won in February, but we can beat it in November. Copyright 1996 Richard Stallman Verbatim copying and distribution is permitted in any medium provided this notice is preserved.