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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.

@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
@node M-x, Help, Minibuffer, Top
@chapter Running Commands by Name

  The Emacs commands that are used often or that must be quick to type are
bound to keys---short sequences of characters---for convenient use.  Other
Emacs commands that do not need to be brief are not bound to keys; to run
them, you must refer to them by name.

  A command name is, by convention, made up of one or more words,
separated by hyphens; for example, @code{auto-fill-mode} or
@code{manual-entry}.  The use of English words makes the command name
easier to remember than a key made up of obscure characters, even though
it is more characters to type.

@kindex M-x
  The way to run a command by name is to start with @kbd{M-x}, type the
command name, and finish it with @key{RET}.  @kbd{M-x} uses the
minibuffer to read the command name.  @key{RET} exits the minibuffer and
runs the command.  The string @samp{M-x} appears at the beginning of the
minibuffer as a @dfn{prompt} to remind you to enter the name of a
command to be run.  @xref{Minibuffer}, for full information on the
features of the minibuffer.

  You can use completion to enter the command name.  For example, the
command @code{forward-char} can be invoked by name by typing

@example
M-x forward-char @key{RET}
@end example

@noindent
or

@example
M-x forw @key{TAB} c @key{RET}
@end example

@noindent
Note that @code{forward-char} is the same command that you invoke with
the key @kbd{C-f}.  You can run any Emacs command by name using
@kbd{M-x}, whether or not any keys are bound to it.

  If you type @kbd{C-g} while the command name is being read, you cancel
the @kbd{M-x} command and get out of the minibuffer, ending up at top level.

  To pass a numeric argument to the command you are invoking with
@kbd{M-x}, specify the numeric argument before the @kbd{M-x}.  @kbd{M-x}
passes the argument along to the command it runs.  The argument value
appears in the prompt while the command name is being read.

@vindex suggest-key-bindings
  If the command you type has a key binding of its own, Emacs mentions
this in the echo area, two seconds after the command finishes (if you
don't type anything else first).  For example, if you type @kbd{M-x
forward-word}, the message says that you can run the same command more
easily by typing @kbd{M-f}.  You can turn off these messages by setting
@code{suggest-key-bindings} to @code{nil}.

  Normally, when describing in this manual a command that is run by
name, we omit the @key{RET} that is needed to terminate the name.  Thus
we might speak of @kbd{M-x auto-fill-mode} rather than @kbd{M-x
auto-fill-mode @key{RET}}.  We mention the @key{RET} only when there is
a need to emphasize its presence, such as when we show the command
together with following arguments.

@findex execute-extended-command
  @kbd{M-x} works by running the command
@code{execute-extended-command}, which is responsible for reading the
name of another command and invoking it.