The recommended means for supporting the “C–like” programming languages in SXEmacs is the cc-mode package. CC Mode is not included in the basic SXEmacs distribution but is available as an optional package. If loading a file whose names ends in the .cc extension does not automatically invoke a C++ Mode then the cc-mode package is probably not yet installed. See Packages.
CC Mode provides modes for editing source files in Awk
(awk-mode), C (c-mode), C++ (c++-mode), CORBA IDL
(idl-mode), Java (java-mode), Objective C
(objc-mode), and Pike (pike-mode). All these languages are
supported with an sophisticated “indentation engine” that is feature
rich, customizable and quite efficient.
Each language major mode runs hooks in the conventionally named hook
variables (see Mode Hooks). In addition to this conventional
behavior all the CC Mode major modes will also run hooks in
c-mode-common-hook before invoking the major mode specific
hook.
CC Mode runs any hooks in c-initialization-hook exactly once
when it is first loaded.
CC Mode is a very comprehensive and flexible system and full description of its capabilities is beyond the scope of this manual. It is strongly recommended that the reader consult the CC Mode documentation for details once the package has been installed. See CC Mode in The CC Mode Manual.
| • Older Modes: | Older Modes for C and AWK | |
| • Customizing CC Mode: | An Introduction to Customizing CC Mode. |