Re: [Ada-mode-users] release candidate

[Simon Wright]

On 14 Feb 2017, at 22:58, Stephen Leake <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Simon Wright <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 13 Feb 2017, at 17:37, Stephen Leake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> In particular, I'd like people to test the GPS indentation engine, since
>>> it requires compiling Ada code.
>> 
>> I needed to do this, because my 90kb .adb (over 200 subprograms) was
>> taking forever to return from almost any edit.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> did you also try:
> 
> --  Local Variables:
> --  jit-lock-defer-time: 0.5
> --  End:

I somehow thought that turning font lock mode off would do the same; it 
doesn't. But this fix would have worked. I could probably live with setting it 
to 0.25 globally.

> Ah. I edited GPS configure to eliminate libclang; I should also have
> eliminated GTK. I'll try that.

The benefit of altering configure.in & autoconf is that it's much less work!

>> I don't like to configure and build in-place, so configured in a
>> subdirectory build/ (actually, perhaps it should be a parallel
>> directory?)
> 
> When I do that, I use a parallel directory. That simplifies diffs and
> updates later.

The diffs (especially with git) are OK. And I certainly use a parallel 
directory for GCC (it's very strongly recommended).

> I'm working on a setting that uses the wisi parser for fontification and
> navigation, on files < ada-gps-size-threshold, and ada-gps indentation
> for all files.

OK!

--S