Target Language Compiler

The Emacs Editor

If you're editing TLC files, we recommend trying to use Emacs. You can get a copy of Emacs from http://www.gnu.org.

The MathWorks has created a tlc-mode for Emacs that gives automatic indenting and color-coded syntax highlighting of TLC files. You can obtain tlc-mode (and matlab-mode) from our Web site.

• ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/contrib/emacs_add_ons
  

See the readme.txt file for instructions on how to configure tlc-mode.

Color-coding syntax in Emacs makes TLC code is much more readable.

Getting Started

To get started using Emacs:

Ctrl+x Ctrl+f file.tlc <return>	Loads a file into an Emacs buffer for editing.
Ctrl+x Ctrl+s	Saves the file in the current buffer.
Ctrl+x Ctrl+c	Exits Emacs.

Ctrl stands for control key. For example, to load a file into Emacs, hold down the control key and type x, followed by f with the control key still pressed, then release the control key and type the name of a file followed by return. A tutorial is available from the Emacs Help menu.

Creating a TAGS File

If you are familiar with Emacs TAGS, you can create a TAGS file for TLC files by invoking

• etags --regex='/[ \t]*\%function[ \t]+.+/' --language=none *.tlc
  

in the Unix directory where your .tlc files are located. The etags command is located the emacs_root/bin directory. Users of Windows NT must type

• etags "--regex=/[ \t]*\%function[ \t]+.+/" --language=none *.tlc
  

in a DOS command window.

Using TLC with Emacs