Re: best way to add commands to c-mode??....

From: seberino@spawar.navy.mil
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: best way to add commands to c-mode??....
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:01:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021023140109.A21193@spawar.navy.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3smyxq6is.fsf@localhost.localdomain>; from miknrene@drizzle.com on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:46:27PM +0000

Michael

Thanks for the help.  I noticed that my .emacs
doesn't launch my c-mode config function
via c-mode-hook but rather from this beast...

   (setq auto-mode-alist  '(("\\.c\\'"    . cs-c-mode)
                            ("\\.C\\'"    . cs-c-mode)
                            ("\\.cpp\\'"  . cs-c-mode)
                            ("\\.h\\'"    . cs-c-mode)
                            ("\\.java\\'" . cs-c-mode)))

Is the same, worse or better??? I wanted to make my own
simple language mode and somewhere I discovered that
auto-mode-alist would point certain file suffixes
to my c-mode config function.

Chris

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:46:27PM +0000, Michael Slass wrote:
> seberino@spawar.navy.mil writes:
> 
> >Is this the simplest way to add commands to c-mode?...
> >
> >(defun cs-c-mode() (interactive)
> >  (c-mode)
> >  (c-set-style "K&R")
> >  (setq c-basic-offset 3)
> >  (local-set-key "\C-d" 'cs-kill-line))
> >
> >
> >Did I have to define a new mode/function to add
> >these 3 commands??
> >
> 
> The most common paradigm is
> 
> 1) define a function that does all your c-mode customizations
> 2) add your function to one of the c-mode hooks
> 
> 
> (defun cs-c-mode-setup ()
>  (c-set-style "K&R")
>  (setq c-basic-offset 3)
>  (local-set-key "\C-d" 'cs-kill-line))
> 
> 
> (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'cs-c-mode-setup)
> 
> 
> One of the last things c-mode does when it starts is to run all the
> functions listed in the c-mode-hook variable.
> 
> 
> Check out the documentation for hooks in the emacs manual
> 
> C-h i m emacs <RET> m hook <RET>
> 
> which talks about exactly what you're trying to do.
> 
> 
> Also, if you're using a newer emacs, there is another hook that's used
> for all c-like modes.  Once you've loaded c-mode, try
> M-x apropos <RET> c.*common to see the names of the variables.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Slass
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