boo-mode

This is an emacs major mode for the Boo programming language. For more info on boo, see http://boo.codehaus.org.

"Boo is an object oriented statically typed language for .NET and Mono with a python-inspired syntax and a special focus on metaprogramming through language and compiler extensibility."

For this reason, this mode derives from python.el (python.el "Gallina"). It is doubtful any other python mode will work with boo-mode due to the use of and dependence on the indentation features of python.el.

• Author: Patrick Sullivan
• URL: http://github.com/algoterranean/boo-mode

This file is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for more information.

Installation

First, you will need python.el: https://github.com/fgallina/python.el. This mode derives from it and depends on its particular manner of handling syntax indentation.

Put this file in your load path and put (require 'boo-mode) in your .emacs. You may, of course, hook into the boo-mode hook if you wish, and you will want to define the autoload stuff. For example:

(setq boo-custom-macros '("client" "server"))
(require 'boo-mode)
(setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.boo$" . boo-mode))
auto-mode-alist))

Customization:

• The faces are exposed if you wish to customize them.

• You can define your own keywords that need syntax highlighting and indentation (read: your custom macros!). HOWEVER you will need to define the boo-custom-macro variable BEFORE you load this mode. This is due to some rather hackish macro expansion stuff that has been derived from python.el. See the example under Installation, above.

TODO:

• Improve and finalize syntax highlighting.
  • In particular, Attributes.
• Add doc string support.
• Add keymap support.
• Interpreter support.
• Break out font lock keywords into separate categories.
• Debugging support?
• Unity-specific support?

History and Version Notes:

• 0.1, Feb 2014: Initial release, so, yeah. Don't expect shit to work much.