Updated chuck-mode for Emacs

kcfelix · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:27 am Post subject: Updated chuck-mode for Emacs

Hello folks,

I've announced this on the chuck-users list and they told me it would be nice to announce it here too.

I've just discovered and started learning ChucK and It's very neat. As I'm an Emacs user I downloaded the emacs mode for editing ChucK files. It was rather old and was missing some functionality so I've made an update.

http://bitbucket.org/kcfelix/emacsd/src/tip/my-lisp/chuck-mode.el

Features of this update:

Syntax highlight more consistent with other languages supported by Emacs
Added all keywords, types and library functions listed on the documentation.
C-c C-c inside a ChucK buffer will send the buffer code to the VM. If there's no VM process one will be created
C-c C-d remove a shred from the VM by a numeric id
C-c C-r replace a shred with the code on the current buffer
Easy customization for the path of the chuck executable, so you don't have to edit lisp code to change it.

Class and method name highlighting is not working yet, but I plan on adding it soon.

Well, I'm planning to update it frequently to make it better according to my use of it, but if there's anyone using Emacs for ChucK and want to give some advice it would be very nice Smile

If you use it and test it send feedback to the issue tracker: http://bitbucket.org/kcfelix/emacsd/issues/new/
Sugestions for enhancements are welcome as well as bug reports.

Right now it has been tested under Windows Vista and GNU Emacs 23. Future testing under Ubuntu Jaunty will be done soon too.

mrcold · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject:

this is really cool.. too bad i don't like emacs Smile

but really.. nice work.

Antimon · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:51 pm Post subject:

kcfelix.

Thanks for this update. thumleft

I think I'm going to try it out in Aquaemacs on OSX, see how it works (been meaning to try out another text editor on the Mac for a while).

/Stefan

Antimon · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:50 am Post subject:

The syntax coloring works nicely in Aquamacs, though something went wrong when I tried to add a shred. I've added an issue report at BitBucket! Smile

/Stefan

kcfelix · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:13 am Post subject:

Antimon · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:13 am Post subject:

Yeah it's not the most ciritical of bugs for me - I'm used to keeping an open terminal where I run the chuck application anyway. Besides, I often need to run with arguments (to get multiple in/out working) - but not always, and to have that work I'd need to edit the chuck-mode.el file. Could there be a simple way to load arguments - maybe by an environment variable or something?

Found an indentation thingie, adding that too to bitbucket.

Anyway, I think this syntax coloring makes things easier, and it's fun to try out emacs again (been 10 years or so). Smile

/Stefan

Antimon · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:21 am Post subject:

Blast! The colouring just stopped working! It no longer colours .ck files I open. The only thing I did was edit the "(defcustom chuck-exec "chuck"" line... Could you help a rusty emacser with a command that shows modes I have installed and/or what's wrong with them?

/Stefan

kcfelix · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:38 am Post subject:

Antimon · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:00 am Post subject:

Hi!

I copied ~/.emacs.d/init.el to ~/.emacs.el and then it started working again. Could be something weird going on with Aquamacs maybe...

Anyway, I have a method for solving this problem that I can probably use to troubleshoot if it happens again. Thanks for your explanation of things Smile

I'm starting to rediscover why I used to like emacs.

/Stefan

kcfelix · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject:

Fixed the indentation bug Smile

Also, I've added a specific page on the wiki for using ChucK on Emacs:

http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/forums.html/ChucKWithEmacs

I'll document the features of my mode there, updating when I add anything new, so keep an eye on it!

And glad you are liking Emacs again. I think it's a wonderful editor. Amazing how easy it is to add support for editing any language! Updating this mode is being a great experience for me. I was trying to put myself on learning elisp, but never found the proper motivation.