Re: Ada-mode-users Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4

[Stephen Leake]

Left Right <olegsivokon@gmail.com> writes:

>> It took me a while to find that Ada mode has a dedicated Info manual,
>
>> That's standard Emacs practice. It is mentioned in the package info
>> shown by M-x list-packages, C-s ada, <ret>.
>
>> How else should we present that information so you would have found it
>> quicker?
>
> No change necessary. I was just explaining that I didn't know this earlier.
>
>> You also have to tell Emacs that is the current project. Note that the
>> directory containing the project file is included by default, so you
>> don't need that src_dir entry. You also have to specify the gpr file.
>
> So... how to I tell Emacs that is the current project. Like I wrote
> earlier, Emacs manual doesn't have this information, neither Ada Mode
> manual has it.  It's not a very long read, so, unlikely that I've
> missed it.
> How do I specify the gpr file? What variable should I assign this to?
> This isn't covered in the manual...
>
>> You should work thru the tutorials in the info manual; they give working
>> examples of the various ways to use project files. The simplest way is
>> to use the gpr file itself as the ada-mode project file.
>
> What section of info manual are we talking about?

Compiling Examples

(Should be named Tutorial)

> It sounds like you are talking about Ada Mode manual, but I cannot
> find any description of how to use gpr file itself as ada-mode project
> file. It does mention that it's possible, but doesn't tell what needs
> to be done to accomplish that.
>
>> Anyways. My major problem with the title section of the manual is that
>> it doesn't tell how to select projects.
>
>> There is a section in ada-mode.info titled "Project Files". The first
>> line in that refers to the info file for wisi project files. That file
>> has a section titled "Project extension" (this could have a better
>> name). In there is a section titled "selecting projects".
>
> I reproduce below the section that you mentioned. 

I mentioned three, the final one has the title "selecting projects".
Apparently you did not find that one.

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-- Stephe