Logo major mode for Emacs

Jeremy Cowles — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:54:56 +0000

At the time of this posting, it’s still pretty rough, but it does basic syntax highlighting for very common functions (only a small fraction of them). It also associates “.lg” files with logo-mode.

To make it load every time you start emacs, you can either copy the source into your .emacs file, or load the file (again in the .emacs file):

(load “~/logo-mode.el”)

Assuming you saved it in your home directory.

If you just want to run it once and check it out, open the file, then select “evaluate buffer” from the emacs-list menu. Then open a “.lg” file, and it should automatically highlight.

(load “~/logo-mode.el”)

Let me know if you find any bugs or have any requests.

Download: Logo-Mode

Emacs, syntax highlighting

Jeremy Cowles — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:30:10 +0000

I’ve always been partial to VI, but I’ve been forced to use Emacs for a class I’m taking this semester, and it turns out that I really love Emacs – even more than VI. The stateless model of editing is what I’ve been accustom to (coming from Windows), and it just makes more sense to me. I generally don’t think, “now I’m in edit mode, it’s ok to type.” Not that I think this is wrong, it’s just not natural for me.

Also, I’ve recently made a Emacs “Major Mode” for Berkeley Logo. It was amazingly easy, I actually made it last night in about 2 hours. It is essentially a set of regular expressions bound to keyword types that Emacs knows, written in Lisp. I wrote it with Berkeley Logo in mind, but there’s nothing that should stop it from working for any version of Logo.

I will post it as soon as I get the kinks worked out.

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Logo major mode for Emacs

Emacs, syntax highlighting