Emacs & D wiki update
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Fri Mar 2 14:23:34 PST 2007
Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> The bizarre thing is that I actually like the way it highlights D code
>> *better* than Ben Hinkle's d-mode. That's really bizarre. I think
>> it's just that's because it's based on emacs 22's cc-mode, so really
>> all I'm seeing is the upgraded cc-mode at work.
>>
>> So realizing this, I decided to try to update Ben Hinkle's mode. It
>> now works for me at least in both Emacs 21 and 22. You can get it
>> here:
>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport/EmacsDMode
>>
>> Hopefully that will work for you. If not, maybe tell me what version
>> of emacs you have (M-x version) and what version of cc-mode you have
>> (M-x c-version). But honestly I'm not really much of an elisp hacker.
>> I know just enough to be dangerous. :-)
>
> I'll give it a try. The problem I ran into with the old d-mode was that
> it didn't auto-indent some things properly, and Emacs tends to be pretty
> heavy-handed in how it does auto-indenting. With any luck this one will
> work better.
I did get one response on the cc-mode list with a pointer to a "modern"
csharp mode:
http://mfgames.com/linux/csharp-mode
It looks good. I recommend updating that. If you don't do it I will.
Then we can just have 2 d-modes, one for cc-mode 5.30+, and leave the
current one for old cc-mode.
--bb
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