Welcome to cc-mode
, version 4. This is a GNU Emacs mode for
editing files containing C, C++, Objective-C, and Java code.
This incarnation of the mode is descendant from `c-mode.el' (also
called "Boring Old C Mode" or BOCM :-)
, and `c++-mode.el'
version 2, which I have been maintaining since 1992. cc-mode
represents a significant milestone in the mode's life. It has been
fully merged back with Emacs 19's `c-mode.el'. Also a new, more
intuitive and flexible mechanism for controlling indentation has been
developed.
cc-mode
version 4 supports the editing of K&R and ANSI C,
ARM (1) C++, Objective-C, and Java files. In this way,
you can easily set up consistent coding styles for use in editing all C,
C++, Objective-C, and Java programs.
This manual will describe the following:
cc-mode
.
Note that the name of this file is `cc-mode.el', and I'll often
refer to the package as cc-mode
, but there really is no top level
cc-mode
entry point. I call it cc-mode
simply to
differentiate it from `c-mode.el'. All of the variables, commands,
and functions in cc-mode
are prefixed with c-<thing>
, and
c-mode
, c++-mode
, objc-mode
, and java-mode
entry points are provided. This file is intended to be a replacement
for `c-mode.el' and `c++-mode.el'.
The major version number was incremented to 4 with the addition of
objc-mode
. To find the minor revision number of this release, use
M-x c-version RET. Work has already begun on cc-mode
version 5, in which Emacs 18 will not be supported.
As of this writing (19-Jan-1996), both Emacs 19.30 and XEmacs 19.13 are
distributed with cc-mode
. Emacs 19.31 and XEmacs 19.14 will both
contain the latest version of cc-mode when it is released. If you are
running older versions of these Emacsen, you may want to upgrade your
copy of cc-mode
. See section Getting the latest cc-mode
release.
This distribution also contains a file called `cc-compat.el'
which should ease your transition from BOCM to cc-mode
. It
currently comes unguaranteed and unsupported, but this may change for
future versions.
A special word of thanks goes to Krishna Padmasola for his work in
converting the original `README' file to texinfo format.
cc-mode
users have been clamoring for a manual for a long time,
and thanks to Krishna, it is now available <clap> <clap> <clap>!
:-)
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