Re: emacs forth mode?

Where do you find gforth.el?
Thanks,
Wil Blake

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Ehrenpreis [mailto:charlese_at_adelphia.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:03 AM
To: swiftx_at_forth.com
Subject: [swiftx] Re: emacs forth mode?

Matthew Karas wrote:

> I'm trying to get my emacs to be a bit nicer with forth code files (using
> winxp ) but it really likes to thing that its looking at fortran code.
> Any procedures on setting up emacs to work with forth code?

I'm presuming you have some familiarity with customizing emacs (and that
you're using GnuEmacs). Use gforth.el. Customize your .emacs (_emacs in
WinXP) in your 'HOME' directory by adding something like this:

;;; forth
;;;
(setq auto-mode-alist
      (cons '("\\.f\\'" . forth-mode) auto-mode-alist))

(autoload 'forth-mode "gforth" "Major mode for forth code.")
(add-hook 'forth-mode-hook
          (function
           (lambda ()
             (setq forth-indent-level 2)
             (setq forth-minor-indent-level 2))))

I've been happily using GnuEmacs as my only forth source-code editor for
over 2 years, in a SwiftX environment. The only problem I've found is that
the gforth.el code doesn't recognize the '{' and '}' pair as containing
comments and as a result, 'colors' the key words even in the comments. You
can play with the indent-levels as you prefer by modifying the _emacs code
above.

If you have any further questions on this, please let me know, and if you
make some interesting mods to gforth.el, I'd be very interested in knowing
about them!

Live long and prosper,
 
Charles Ehrenpreis
Executec, Inc.

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