Hmm. Really can't replicate the problem --- font-lock works fine for me. Greg, can you email out your full .emacs? And double-check the version of emacs your running?
y On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Yaron Minsky <[email protected]> wrote: > That's odd. I'll look at this this weekend. > > y > > On Jan 23, 2015 11:07 AM, "Greg Morrisett" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks. >> >> Your dot-emacs and dot-merlin work (with tuareg-2.0.8 which >> is what opam installs now.) >> >> However, font lock mode doesn’t automatically trigger on either >> emacs or aquamacs, in spite of the fact that I added: >> >> (global-font-lock-mode t) >> >> If I add a hook to try to explicitly turn on font-lock: >> >> (add-hook 'tuareg-mode-hook 'font-lock-fontify-buffer t) >> >> then I get the error: >> >> Warning: Bug in tuareg-mode: it forgets to call `run-mode-hooks' >> File mode specification error: (void-function tuareg-syntax-propertize) >> >> -Greg >> >> > On Jan 22, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Yaron Minsky <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > In the meantime, I've attached a dot-emacs and dot-merlin files that I >> > think work nicely on a mac. The one thing you need to do is to add >> > this line to your .profile file: >> > >> > eval `opam config env` >> > >> > The dot emacs depends on this being in place for figuring out where to >> > find all the executables stashed in the .opam directory. >> > >> > The pre-reqs for this to work is getting tuareg downloaded and in the >> > proper path (right now, I assume ~/.elisp/tuareg-mode), and installing >> > some opam packages: >> > >> > opam install core async merlin utop ocp-indent >> > >> > This should give you merlin, ocp-indent, tuareg, and utop support, all >> > nicely integrated. Note that the .merlin file needs to go in the >> > directory where you're editing code (and really, in every directory >> > where you're editing code.) And the .merlin assumes that you're using >> > ocamlbuild (or corebuild) and so are putting your build artifacts in >> > _build. >> > >> > I'm hoping this is helpful. >> > >> > y >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Yaron Minsky <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Louis Gesbert >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the feedback. It's probably still a bit rough at the moment >> >>> but the config-updating engine is there, and polishing configuration >> >>> itself >> >>> from there should be straight-forward (and never-ending). >> >> >> >> Indeed. Now I think is the time to really focus on getting it >> >> working, because this is the beginning of the semester, and so now is >> >> the most valuable time to have something working cleanly. >> >> >> >> It would be good to know what we have there now. It seems like a >> >> minimum should be: >> >> >> >> - tuareg >> >> - merlin >> >> - ocp-indent >> >> - utop >> >> >> >> all read to go in emacs. Getting vim and sublime text support would >> >> be lovely too, but I think less critical. What does user-setup >> >> already support? >> >> >> >>> The idea, with this and the "depext" package is to have a setup that >> >>> can be limited to: >> >>> >> >>> PACKAGES="user-setup merlin utop cohttp js_of_ocaml oasis >> >>> ocp-indent ocp-index ssl core_extended async js_of_ocaml core_bench >> >>> cohttp >> >>> cryptokit menhir" >> >>> opam init -a >> >>> opam install depext >> >>> opam depext $PACKAGES >> >>> opam install $PACKAGES >> >>> >> >>> and results in a ready-to-go environment. This is in particular >> >>> targetted at VM setup, of course. >> >> >> >> Interesting. Concretely, what would would depext do in this context? >> >> I did a fresh install of a number of packages on my mac, and I didn't >> >> need much else, but I may have already had the dependencies in place >> >> via brew. >> >> >> >> y >> >> >> >>>> - Yaron Minsky, 22/01/2015 10:56 - >> >>>> It installed cleanly for me, but it doesn't quite work. I installed >> >>>> user-setup, merlin, ocp-indent, tuareg, utop, core and async. It all >> >>>> went through, but when I open a .ml file, it shows up in lisp mode, >> >>>> not tuareg. >> >>> >> >>> Seems it doesn't handle the opam-installed tuareg package well at the >> >>> moment, should be fixed in a moment. >> >>> >> >>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Greg Morrisett >> >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>> Okay, I just followed these steps: >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> opam update >> >>>>>> opam install user-setup >> >>>>> >> >>>>> and it seems to be hanging. Is there a log file or >> >>>>> other config information that I can send you to help >> >>>>> figure this out? >> >>> >> >>> Thanks. I just managed to reproduce on OPAM 1.1 and hope to fix it >> >>> quickly. >> >> >> >> Greg, it's also probably a good idea to encourage your students to >> >> upgrade to the latest opam if they're on a mac. Homebrew is pretty >> >> lightweight, and has opam 1.2.0. >> >> >> >> y >> > <dot-emacs><dot-merlin> >> > _______________________________________________ Teaching mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/teaching
