Re: [gentoo-dev] Emacs settings for ebuild scripts

[Mikael Hallendal]

tis 2001-11-06 klockan 19.38 skrev Andreas Voegele:
> Hi!

Hi!

In Emacs21 I get an error when hitting TAB telling me I'm not in
shell-script-mode. You know what's causing that?

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal
 
> Ebuild writers may add the following Emacs Lisp code to their .emacs
> file.  The code adds an ebuild mode which is based on the shell mode
> and sets the tabwidth to 4.
>
> (define-derived-mode ebuild-script-mode
>   sh-mode "Ebuild-script"
>   "Major mode for editing ebuild scripts.
> \\{ebuild-mode-map}"
>   (setq tab-width 4))
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>       (append
>        '(("\\.ebuild$" . ebuild-script-mode))
>        auto-mode-alist))
>
> I've tested this code with GNU Emacs.  Can anyone check if the code
> works with XEmacs?
>
> There's a patch for the Gentoo Linux Developers HOWTO attached to this
> mail.  The patch replaces the text "TODO: add stuff about emacs" with
> the above code.
>
> ----
>

> --- /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/app-doc/gentoo-web/files/xml/gentoo-howto.xml	Fri Oct 19 21:03:36 2001
> +++ gentoo-howto.xml	Tue Nov  6 19:31:35 2001
> @@ -319,7 +319,20 @@
>  	set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 noexpandtab
>  endif
>  </pre>
> -<p>TODO: add stuff about emacs.</p></body>
> +<p>If you're using GNU Emacs, you can put the following code into your .emacs file.</p>
> +<pre>
> +(define-derived-mode ebuild-script-mode
> +  sh-mode "Ebuild-script"
> +  "Major mode for editing ebuild scripts.
> +\\{ebuild-mode-map}"
> +  (setq tab-width 4))
> +
> +(setq auto-mode-alist
> +      (append
> +       '(("\\.ebuild$" . ebuild-script-mode))
> +       auto-mode-alist))
> +</pre>
> +</body>
>  </section>
>
>  <section>
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