[chuck-users] emacs mode?

[George Locke]

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 <plutek at infinity.net> 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.
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