Alan For Emacs

A major mode for editing Alan files. It provides:

• Syntax highlighting.
• Display the current context (path) at point.
• Automatic indentation.
• Flycheck integration.
• Simple xref backend.

Installation

• Put alan-mode.el in your load-path.
• Install it from using package-install M-x package-install [ret] alan-mode

Configuration

To setup up FlyCheck add the following snippet to your init.

(add-hook 'alan-mode-hook
	(lambda ()
		(flycheck-mode +1)
	))

When in an empty Alan block (e.g. { }) a newline yields the following result:

{
	|}

In most cases this is more useful:

{
	|
}

Alan mode provides an electric layout rule (alan-add-line-in-braces-rule). Set it up in your init file, preferably in the alan-mode-hook.

(electric-layout-mode 1)
(set (make-variable-buffer-local 'electric-layout-rules) (list alan-add-line-in-braces-rule))