Hi, I am not an experienced chucker, but I've been using Kao's chuck-mode.el http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/ChucKWithEmacs for the last few weeks. I've used it purely for editing - i haven't tried to hook it up to the VM - for which purpose it is adequate. It has a few quirks. The most annoying is the "electric =", which automatically turns '=' keypresses into "=>": sometimes it's nice, but it's supposed to turn double '=' presses into '==', but it comes out "=>=". (I'm sure if I knew emacs better i could just disable this feature entirely. It's not really that helpful anyway.) I reported it to the bitbucket page ( https://bitbucket.org/kcfelix/chuck-mode/issues?status=new&status=open ) 3 days ago, but I see that the same issue was reported in 2010. Aside from that, I've noticed two minor problems. with the auto-indent. For one, it doesn't work properly on a block until you put a statement in it. When I write " while (true) { } " and then move the cursor into the block to put code inside, emacs will put the close-brace all the way at column zero regardless of context. This is not a major issue, since the above is nonsense code anyway; when i put statements inside the loop, it works properly. Slightly worse is its failure with a block that's in one line. The line after, " if (wait) { 1::second => now; } " will be indented one in, as though the block were never closed. Some people consider that kind of formatting bad style anyway, but I like compact code, so I find it vexing. I'm using GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) on windows 7 pro. I haven't tried the other two modes listed on the wiki page I linked to at the top, but they appear to be way older (2004, 2006), so I'm not optimistic. I'd be interested to hear your results. Regards, George On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:07 PM, plutek wrote:

greetings!

just getting (back!) into ChucK, and my fingers are hard-coded to emacs keybindings.... i'm seeing references to various emacs major-modes for ChucK, but all look old-ish and it's hard to tell which might be best suited for Dracula 1.2.1.3.

any recommendations would be much appreciated!

thanks in advance... cheers! .pltk. _______________________________________________ chuck-users mailing list chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users