Re: How to enable the Major mode: ttcn-3-mode.

[Colin S. Miller]

Hill,
<snip!>

> Thanks Colin S. Miler very much!
Just "Colin" will do ;-}
> I have turn on the font-lock at the beginning of the .emacs:
> 
> (global-font-lock-mode t)

Ok, that should turn font locking for all (major) modes
with a syntax table.

> I try it again, after comment the line:
> ;;(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ttcn3?" . ttcn-3-mode) auto-mode-
> alist))


With the semi-colons? ';' is called a semicolon.
Everything after a semicolon to the end of the line is a comment.
Emacs will ignore the comments.

I'd use
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ttcn3?" . ttcn-3-mode) 't)
to add to the list of modes. However I don't think it makes
any difference.

> and Open a a.ttcn file, the mode is still Fundamental.
> Using the line, when I open the file a.ttcn, the mode line show the
> Major mode is : TTCN-3 without hight-light and indent feature.
> 
> Yes, the ttcn3.el need the module --compile, easymenu and others.
> Emacs can load the ttcn3.el well, can I think all these dependency is
> meet?

In ttcn3.el, the
(require 'foo)
lines will check if "foo" is already loaded by examining the
variable "features".

You can use
C-h v features
to get a list of the loaded features.

If "foo" is not in "features", then (load-library '"foo")
will be called. This will search the paths defined in
the variable "load-path", for foo.elc or foo.el.

.elc is "Emacs Lisp, Compiled", and .el is "Emacs Lisp" (source).

You can use (add-path '"/some/path") to modify the path list.

Finally, the foo.el should do (provide 'foo) to confirm to Emacs
that it has initialised correctly.


Could you copy in a buffer the requires from ttcn3.el
(require 'cc-mode)                      ; ttcn-3-mode inherits from cc-mode
(require 'cc-langs)                     ; e.g. c-make-inherited-keymap
(require 'compile)                      ; and this for compile-interal,
(require 'easymenu)                     ; and uses easymenu,
(require 'font-lock)                    ; font-lock,
(require 'imenu)                        ; and imenu

select them, and then press
M-x eval-region

Is an error reported?

After this, what is the value of "features" ?


HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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