Re: Groovy and (X)Emacs

I was just about to suggest to you ambitious types to take a look at
the mode that comes with the ruby distribution, as it doesn't require
semicolons either.


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:14:32 +0000, Russel Winder 
<russel-Q5fiE77zhxfe9xe1eoZjHA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 20:22, Jeremy Rayner wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> > Not yet, I did amend the java mode for use with jasspa (microemacs),
> > but I never quite solved the issue with semicolons (if you leave them
> > off microemacs seems to put 18 spaces on the next line <sigh>)
> > Will try and hunt around, but I'm no expert on the emacs modes...
> 
> As far as I can tell the problem with using cc-mode as a base (as
> Javascript mode has done) is that it effectively requires semi-colons
> which Groovy does not.  Also of course the Java mode based on cc-mode
> requires large numbers of keywords that Groovy does not.  I guess some
> mixture of python-mode, ruby-mode, javascript-mode and java-mode would
> be required to do the job for groovy -- which probably implies starting
> from scratch :-(
> 
> PS  My researches are VERY XEmacs based as I don't use Emacs.
> 
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