[fpc-pascal]emacs & freepascal

[Michalis Kamburelis]

Jacobo García López de Araújo wrote:
> Hi, it's my first post to the list so i want to salute everyone.
> 
> And here is my question, i'm trying to make freepascal working under
> emacs in linux debian. But i have no quote about that, i could have my
> sintax colored using Options/Syntax Highlighting, but the thing is that
> i want emacs to recognice my .pas files and syntax highlight them,  and
> also want to compile and make directly from emacs like it's done in
> other language modes. 
> 
> I don't know if this can help but when i try to compile a make command
> appears in the low buffer.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jacobo García Lopez de Araujo.
> 
> 

Add
   (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.pas\\'" . pascal-mode))
to your ~/.emacs file to inform Emacs that files with extension "pas" 
should use Pascal mode.

Add
(add-hook 'pascal-mode-hook
   (lambda ()
     (set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
       (concat "fpc " (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name)))
     )
   )
   t)
to your ~/.emacs file to tell Emacs that when you use "compile" function 
in Pascal mode it should propose you command-line like "fpc foo.pas".

You may want to adjust this Elisp code in many ways -- look for 
documentation for all these functions and variables (like 
compile-command or auto-mode-alist) in Emacs using "C-h f" and "C-h v".

-- 
Michalis