Once a time, I need to write some FAME code and I haven't found (yet) any highlighting mode on Emacs or other platforms (there is one in GEdit but GEdit), so I wrote one myself. It is very far from perfect and probably useless but if there is someone out there who's writing some FAME 4GL and looking for a highlighting theme in Emacs, I believe it can provide a decent first step.
The mode provides essentially two main features:
- highlighting keywords
- indenting.
Highlighting is done regardless of the case.
- Commands and options are highlighted with the type face.
- Functions are highlighted with the function name face.
- Keywords like
FOR LOOPare highlighted with the keyword face. - BLOCK and
END BLOCKgot a special preprocessor face because I like to see them stand out. onandoffare highlighted with the warning face while words enclosed in < . >, like< access read>get the constant face.
Two things to note :
LOOP, ELSE, IF, OTHERWISE, TRY, BLOCK as well as REPORT and GRAPH when they are not preceding some words are increasing indent on the next line.
ENDof course close the indentation block.
Copy fame-mode.el somewhere in your path and add to your initialization file (usually .emacsor init.el)
(require 'fame-mode)MIT Licence.