Major mode for editing programming language source code. Typically, it is not used directly, instead many programming-related major modes are derived from this mode.
Questions tagged [prog-mode]
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How do I inherit from prog-mode, whilst still supporting older emacsen?
I'm writing a major mode for a programming language, but I want to support older Emacs versions. prog-mode is relatively new. I want to inherit from prog-mode if it's defined, but still do something sensible otherwise.
What's the best approach?…
Wilfred Hughes
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Is a Lisp program in both prog-mode and lisp-mode?
Upon reading (emacs) Program Modes:
Entering a programming language mode runs the custom Lisp functions
specified in the hook variable prog-mode-hook, followed by those
specified in the mode's own mode hook (see Major Modes). For instance,
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AbstProcDo
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Turn a non prog-mode derived major-mode into a prog-mode derived major-mode
erlang-mode is not a derived prog-mode.
Is there any way to make it part of the prog-mode-hook ?
syl20bnr
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Variable assignment for programming modes not working
I want to set the variable truncate-lines to t in order to have truncated lines, but only in programming modes. So, following this thread, I put the following code in my configuration file:
(defun my-prog-mode-hook ()
(setq truncate-lines…
Giuseppe
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How to create a block from lines
In various programming modes, assuming I have a few lines of code like this :
foo()
bar()
And I want to turn it into a block (say, and if of some sort)
if (something) {
foo()
bar()
}
Is there, in general, a more clever way than :
selecting…
phtrivier
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Highlight variables/functions in commens of all prog-modes
In lisp-mode, strings inside comments that are encapsulated by `' are highlighted with font-lock-constant-face.
How can I make all prog-mode-derived modes do that by default?
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Run an external program with customized environment/options in current buffer
How can I organize Emacs to run a specific external program with some specific environment/options for the mode or the buffer currently open.
My current solution is to use setenv before running the external program, however it seems to change the…
Émilien
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Emacs really laggy on prog-mode
I noticed Emacs was really laggy on any mode derived from prog-mode two days ago. Before that, everything was fine. I can navigate on a 1000+ lines org-mode file without problem, but I can't even type without lag on a 100- line of a C file, or a 50…
João Pedro
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prog-mode-hook not run for C++ mode
I am trying to turn on linum-mode and fci-mode for C++ editing. Here is my configuration:
;; If non nil line numbers are turned on in all `prog-mode' and `text-mode'
;; derivatives. If set to `relative', also turns on relative line numbers.
;;…
Yang
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find-file opens file but buries its buffer when ECB is activated
I have a hook in my .emacs file that activates ECB when prog-mode entered:
(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'ecb-activate)
When I open the first file that starts a prog-mode, it seems to cause find-file* to open the file, but then 'bury' it below all the…
nik
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company-mode no popup graphics at completion-at-point
I tried to install company and lsp on running on Emacs v28.2 on 5.4.240-1-MANJARO for a handful of languages.
Most of the stuff works fine, flycheck, linters,lsp-connection, the popup completion with added documentation. Then i reproduce the config…
xdobx
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indent-region inconsistent with existing code that's indented more than python-indent-offset
Say I have an existing, simple block of code that uses an indent width of 4, as such
def incDictValue(d, k):
if not k in d:
d[k] = 1
else:
d[k] += 1
return
and setup python-mode in my init.el file to use a 2 space…
onlinespending
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Enable prog-mode when minor mode is activated
I created a minor mode for some specific file extension to fontify the syntax and provide correct indentation.
1)The indentation doesn't work for some reason.
2) How to enable prog-mode when the minor mode is enabled?
(define-minor-mode…
SFbay007
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prog-mode-hook not recognizing .ex files in user-config
I'm trying to display prettify-symbols-mode to display for certain characters. I would like for this minor mode to be enabled across all programming languages - thus prog-mode. When I navigate to a .ex file it is not giving me the expected outcome…
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Create a minor mode only for prog-mode major modes
I am working on a minor-mode and I'd like it to be active only for major modes derived from prog-mode.
So far I know that the macro define-minor-mode takes a argument :global to decide whether or not the mode should be global. But this is too…
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