Emacs Modes for Groovy and Grails
This repository contains Emacs modes for Groovy and Grails. The major
features are syntax highlighting with groovy-mode
, REPL integration
with run-groovy
and Grails project navigation with grails-mode
.
Installation
These modes should work with Emacs 23, but we recommend Emacs 24+.
These packages are available on MELPA. To use rolling releases:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)
Alternatively, if you just want stable releases:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)
A Bit of History
This mode was originally developed as a derived mode of java-mode
(a derived mode of cc-mode
) inspired
by Dylan R.E. Moonfire's C# mode. There are however what seem to be insurmountable obstacles to making
groovy-mode
based on CC Mode work as people want. Wilfred Hughes created a new groovy-mode
(standalone)
independent of CC Mode.
The CC Mode version of groovy-mode
used to be master, and is the basis for the 1.0.1 version on MELPA. The
work on standlone groovy-mode
happened on a feature branch. As of 2017-05-08T08:00+01:00, the CC Mode
version has been switched to the 1.X branch and the standalone version is now master and will be released as
2.0.0 as soon as viable.
cc-mode derived mode
The CC Mode version of groovy-mode
is configured by overriding cc-mode
settings, such as c-basic-offset
.
Standalone mode (the default)
The new, and now default, standalone mode provides more robust highlighting and indentation, plus niceties like string interpolation highlighting, compared to the CC Mode based version..
You can configure the standalone groovy-mode
with M-x customize RET groovy-mode RET
.