Re: [Gm2] lowercase keywords, Modula-2 mode for emacs

[Gaius Mulley]

Benjamin Kowarsch <address@hidden> writes:

> On 6 June 2018 at 20:56, Gaius Mulley <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>     
>     Benjamin Kowarsch <address@hidden> writes:
>     
>     > Did you also implement the recognition of dialect tags and
>     dialect
>     > specific rendering as I did for vim?
>     
>     not yet - but good timing as I'm currently adding the keywords.
>     Will
>     slip this code in at this point!
>     
>
> Great.
>
> Note it is not only keywords but also predefined identifiers that need
> to be lowercased. In our Pygments plugin we render keywords in
> lowercase bold (optionally underlined) and predefined identifiers in
> lowercase bold italic. I am not sure if you can replicate than in
> emacs, though.

thanks for the stear. Yes I think this can be done in emacs.

> Also note that we changed READ and WRITE from procedure to statement
> in M2 R10. This means they are no longer predefined identifiers but
> keywords now. Also, since the WRITE statement syntax supports both
> formatted and unformatted writing, there was no longer any need for
> WRITEF which became obsolete altogether.
>
> https://github.com/m2sf/m2bsk/wiki/Language-Description#the-read-statement
>
> https://github.com/m2sf/m2bsk/wiki/Language-Description#the-write-statement

ah interesting - always nice to see things removed when unnecessary.
I still plan to implement this!  Looks like great fun


regards,
Gaius