I think the only significant change that emacs needs to deal with would if it's giving special treatment (color, or whatever) for m. n. u. v. x. y.
(I took a quick look -- the only special treatment I see is that it gives a help link to dxdot.htm, which is no longer included in J -- so you might want to replace the lines from j-mode.el that refer to dxdot.htm, dmdot.htm and dudot.htm with lines that refer to d310n.htm and make them refer to the names without the trailing dot. You might also add an M. entry.) Other than that, everything that works with j5 should work the same for j7. (Emacs needs to be using jconsole, and there's not much that's changed there, that matters for emacs.) That said, a minor mode for j could be useful (this could give you j-relevant features that you could use inside other major modes -- if you want to be doing that). But I haven't used emacs since the mid-90s, so I am not the right person to design or implement such a thing. FYI, -- Raul On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Gilles Kirouac <gkiro...@riq.qc.ca> wrote: > emacs aficionados > > I met a student willing to have a look at J. He is familiar > with emacs and I want to meet him there. > > I tried a setup of emacs with J602 for Linux with partial success > after reading > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Syntax%20Coloring > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/emacs.htm > > both of which refer to > http://j-mode.sourceforge.net/ > > However that last text with its j-mode.el file are for J5.03! > Things have changed! > > Where are UP-TO-DATE instructions with a current j-mode.el file? > > What is the equivalent of ~/j504/jw now (user manual)? > > BTW, why do you like the emacs environment? for the power > of its editor? > > ~ Gilles > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
