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From: ecragg@gmu90x.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Tools in Ada
Message-ID: <11@gmu90x.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 09:49:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: gmu90x.11
Posted: Wed Sep  2 09:49:17 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 04:40:36 EDT
References: <51500013@smu>
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Summary: The Navy is developing text editor / text formatter in ada

In article <51500013@smu>, spray@smu writes:
> 
> It is encouraging to see programming tools such as X Windows being
> implemented in Ada. If source code is available it should make life
> easier for those of us who are constantly switching from machine
> to machine. Does anyone know of any efforts to produce Ada versions
> of EMACS, MicroEMACS, RUNOFF, TeX, Kermit? 
> 
> Rob Spray
> Electrospace Systems
> ...convex!smu!spray
> smu%spray@relay.cs.net

   The Navy as part of the Ada Language System / Navy development is producing
a Text editor which will have a line editor component loosly based upon the
software tools ED editor, and a full screen editor which is loosly based upon
the VAX EDT editor.  In addition, they are developing a Text formatter which
is based upon nroff with modifications to support classified documents and
conversion of documents originally formatted in RUNOFF.

software tools ed editor and a full screen editor which is lloosl