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Subject: Some questions about GPS
From: Ian Douglas <ian@vionia.com>
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Hi

Please advise if off topic.

Finally trying to learn Ada, after years of PHP. Did Pascal at varsity back=
 in the 80s.

Using GPS on Linux but some things driving me nuts, so need to determine if=
 "that's the way it is" or is my configuration is flaky.=20

1. Line numbers: selected option for "all" but only first few are shown, th=
en they stop.=20

2. When selecting text to copy/cut, it reverts to black on white when selec=
ted. I'm used to Kate where selected text gets a different background so yo=
u can clearly see what you've selected. Is this me or the way the editor wo=
rks (and IMHO this is sub-optimal for usability).

3. Am trying to read in a file, play with it, and write it out. So started =
with "Expanded with proper error handling and reporting it reads:" example =
(2nd one) on https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/File_input/output#Line_by_lin=
e , but the compiler insists that the two "close input" statements are "unr=
eachable code".
Is this normal? If I comment them out, it compiles okay. And runs okay.

Thanks, Ian