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From: Beebe@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU ("Nelson H.F. Beebe")
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: preliminary awk mode for GNU Emacs
Message-ID: <12441323401.16.BEEBE@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU>
Date: 25 Oct 88 21:10:36 GMT
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The posting today

>> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 88 14:44:30 edt
>> From: Dave Sill <dsill@nswc-oas.ARPA>
>> To: unix-emacs@bbn.com
>> Subject: GNU Emacs Lisp Code Directory

reminded me that I hadn't got around to contributing my awk
mode for GNU Emacs.  awk is very similar to C, differing (as
far as editing goes) mostly in the comment syntax.  Thus,
the awk-mode.el file is quite small.  I augment it with the
following in my .emacs file, to get automatic selection of
the mode on visiting a file with extension .awk:

(setq auto-mode-alist
      (cons (cons "\\.awk$" 'awk-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(autoload 'awk-mode  "awk-mode"
  "Enter awk mode." t nil)

Here is awk-mode.el:

;/u/sy/beebe/emacs/awk-mode.el, Mon Oct 17 14:29:27 1988
;Edit by Nelson H.F. Beebe (beebe at plot79.utah.edu)
(defun awk-mode ()
  "Set up for editing awk code (a minor variation on C mode)."
  (interactive)
  (c-mode)
  (make-local-variable 'comment-start)
  (setq comment-start "# ")
  (make-local-variable 'comment-end)
  (setq comment-end "")
  (make-local-variable 'comment-column)
  (setq comment-column 32)
  (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip)
  (setq comment-start-skip "# *")
  (setq mode-name "awk")
)
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