Re: CC Mode 5.27 (); Adaptation of c-mode for awk-mode

[Harry Putnam]

mast@lysator.liu.se (Martin Stjernholm) writes:

> Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> > `awk-mode' currently uses c-mode to do indentation, which only really
> > works well for awk programs that terminate all statements using
> > semicolons.  Unfortunately, this means it doesn't work well for a
> > majority of awk programs.
> > 
> > How hard would it be to parameterize c-mode so that it could regard
> > newline as being a statement terminator, just like semicolon?  This
> > would allow awk-mode to behave much more nicely.
> 
> Spontaneously I'd say quite difficult, but it depends on how thorough
> you'd want it to be. As a start it might be enough just to modify
> c-beginning-of-statement-1, which is used most of the time to back up
> a statement during syntax recognition.
> 
> Otoh, if awk-mode should work really well it might be better off not
> to be based on CC Mode. The syntaxes doesn't really have all that much
> in common, so the parts of CC Mode that are useful might just as well
> be ripped out or reimplemented.

Anyone know if any work is being done to reimplement an awk mode?

Being a novice awk programmer, I looked to emacs to help me with
indentation etc, but find it more confusing than helpfull and prefer
not to have the semi-colons in my code.