GNU ELPA - a68-mode

a68-mode -- Algol68 major mode

This mode fully supports automatic indentation and font locking (i.e. syntax highlighting) including the three comment styles.

a68-mode supports the classical UPPER stropping regime and the more modern SUPPER stropping implemented by the GCC Algol 68 front-end. The mode will assume SUPPER stropping unless the string "pr UPPER pr" is found anywhere in the program text.

Manual installation

Just put a68-mode.el somewhere in your load-path and require it. Or visit the file with Emacs and M-x package-install-file RET.

Customization

The following variables are available for customization:

• a68-indent-level (default 3): indentation offset
• a68-comment-style-{upper,supper} (default "#"): the default comment style used by e.g. comment-dwim.

see M-x customize-group a68 RET for more info.

Little history of this code

Jose E. Marchesi wrote the first version of a68-mode.el.

At some point someone got a copy of a68-mode.el, renamed it to algol-mode.el and distributed it in github.

Then Omar Polo forked algol-mode.el, renaming it back to a68-mode.el.

Finally at some point Jose decided to ditch his original version and start using and maintain Omar's version instead.

This is that copy.