A new emacs d-mode from scratch

[Bill Baxter]

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>> I made a new emacs mode.
>>>> Here it is.
>>>>
>>>> For some reason I couldn't get it to show up properly on Wiki4D so 
>>>> I'm attaching it here.
>>>
>>> Cool. I tried it, but I get the error "Cannot open load file: 
>>> cc-defs.el". Is that mode the C mode? But I do seem to have proper C 
>>> mode installed.
>>
>> Missing cc-defs.el means you've got an old cc-mode:
>>
>> ;; cc-mode version 5.30 or greater is required.
>> ;; You can check your cc-mode with the command M-x c-version.
>> ;; You can get the latest version of cc-mode at
>> ;; http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net
>>
>> I just tried the cc-mode upgrade out with my emacs 21.  Installation 
>> of the new cc-mode is pretty trivial.  Unzip to a directory, add that 
>> directory to your emacs search path, M-x byte-compile-directory.
>>
>> I did get some errors trying to do the byte compiling with emacs 21. 
>> But I fixed em.  So after upgrading your cc-mode, try the attached 
>> d-mode.
> 
> Thanks! Works great, modulo the warning I get during compilation:
> 
> d-mode.el:266:1:Warning: defcustom for `d-font-lock-extra-types' fails 
> to specify containing group
> 
> As we all know, it's best to compile with zero warnings :o).
> 

You can try commenting out that line with the d-font-lock-extra types on 
it.  Maybe it isn't necessary.  I just copied that part verbatim from 
the example on the cc-mode website.

--bb