ccmode: Introduction
1 Introduction
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Welcome to CC Mode, a GNU Emacs mode for editing files containing C,
C++, Objective-C, Java, CORBA IDL (and the variants CORBA PSDL and
CIDL), Pike and AWK code. This incarnation of the mode is descended
from ‘c-mode.el’ (also called “Boring Old C Mode” or BOCM :-),
‘c++-mode.el’ version 2, which Barry Warsaw had been maintaining since
1992, and ‘awk-mode.el’, a long neglected mode in the (X)Emacs base.
Late in 1997, Martin Stjernholm joined Barry on the CC Mode
Maintainers Team, and implemented the Pike support. In 2000 Martin took
over as the sole maintainer. In 2001 Alan Mackenzie joined the team,
implementing AWK support in version 5.30. CC Mode did not originally
contain the font lock support for its languages; that was added in
version 5.30.
This manual describes CC Mode version 5.32.
CC Mode supports the editing of C, C++, Objective-C, Java, CORBA’s
Interface Definition Language, Pike(1) and AWK files. In this way, you
can easily set up consistent font locking and coding styles for use in
editing all of these languages, although AWK is not yet as uniformly
integrated as the other languages.
Note that the name of this package is “CC Mode”, but there is no top
level ‘cc-mode’ entry point. All of the variables, commands, and
functions in CC Mode are prefixed with ‘c-THING’, and ‘c-mode’,
‘c++-mode’, ‘objc-mode’, ‘java-mode’, ‘idl-mode’, ‘pike-mode’, and
‘awk-mode’ entry points are provided. This package is intended to be a
replacement for ‘c-mode.el’, ‘c++-mode.el’ and ‘awk-mode.el’.
A special word of thanks goes to Krishna Padmasola for his work in
converting the original ‘README’ file to Texinfo format. I’d also like
to thank all the CC Mode victims who help enormously during the early
beta stages of CC Mode’s development.
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) A C-like scripting language with its roots in the LPC language
used in some MUD engines. See <http://pike.ida.liu.se/>.
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