Re: Questions for trying to improve D mode!

[D. M. <li...@mf...>]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Howdy, I'm trying to update the Emacs d-mode here for the D
> Programming Language:
>    http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport/EmacsDMode
> I'd like to support more recent emacs/cc-mode better (while at the
> same time not breaking backwards compatibility with previous emacs
> releases).
>=20
> The existing d-mode (above) seems to be in large part copied from a
> previous csharp-mode.el that existed out on the net somewhere.  But
> that seems to be based on cc-mode before 5.30.

If you are talking about my csharp-mode (http://mfgames.com/linux/csharp-=
mode),
it was based on derived mode. I don't know about any other csharp-modes, =
mainly
I stopped paying attention when mine worked 90%. :)

> So I have a general question, and that's "how should I upgrade d-mode?"=

> I found this: http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/derived-mode-ex.el
> example, which is a nice start, but unfortunately it doesn't really
> customize all that much behavior, so as a template for making a new
> mode, it's kind of limited.  It also doesn't show how to maintain
> backward compatibility.

If it isn't based on that, you could probably easily modify it to fit. I =
have
most of the C# keywords all set in there, along with a couple more intere=
sting ones.

If you have any questions about how or why I did something, feel free to =
ask.

> Here's one specific question:
>=20
> Is cc-mode capable of properly nested comments?  Namely, D has two
> block comment syntaxes, /* .. */   and /+ .. +/.   The first acts like
> C/C++ in that the comment is terminated on the first appearance of
> "*/", but the second nests.  so that e.g.
>       /+ ... /+ .. +/  /*  */  +/
> is all one big comment.

Sadly, I can't answer that.

Cheers,
Dylan