Editor modes & IDE integration for GF

• GF Eclipse Plugin
• Emacs
• Gedit
• Geany

We collect GF modes for various editors on this page. Contributions are welcome!

GF Eclipse Plugin

As a new development under the MOLTO Poject, there is now a (beta) Eclipse plugin for writing GF grammars within the Eclipse IDE. Details can be found here

Emacs

gf.el by Johan Bockgård provides syntax highlighting and automatic indentation and lets you run the GF Shell in an emacs buffer. See installation instructions inside.

Gedit

John J. Camilleri provided the following syntax highlighting mode for Gedit (the default text editor in Ubuntu).

Copy the file below to ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/gf.lang (under Ubuntu).

• gf.lang

Some helpful notes/links:

• The code is based heavily on the haskell.lang file which I found in /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/haskell.lang.
• Ruslan Osmanov recommends registering your file extension as its own MIME type (see also here), however on my system the .gf extension was already registered as a generic font (application/x-tex-gf) and I didn't want to risk messing any of that up.
• This is a quick 5-minute job and might require some tweaking. The GtkSourceView language definition tutorial is the place to start looking.
• Contributions are welcome!

Geany

John J. Camilleri provided the following custom filetype config files for syntax highlighting in Geany.

Copy one of the files below to /usr/share/geany/filetypes.GF.conf (under Ubuntu). You will need to manually create the file.

• light-filetypes.GF.conf
• dark-filetypes.GF.conf

You will also need to edit the filetype_extensions.conf file and add the following line somewhere:

  GF=*.gf