An Emacs Major-Mode for Many-Core Levels

Introduction

Many-Core Levels (MCL) is a framework that allows one to write computational kernels for different kinds of many-core hardware. It consists of two languages: a hardware description language HDL and a programming language MCPL. This Emacs major mode for MCPL provides syntax highlighting, formatting, and MCL-specific functions such as translating between abstraction levels.

Installation

To install this Emacs major mode, clone the git repository in the Emacs resource directory:

cd .emacs.d/
git clone https://github.com/JungleComputing/mcl-mode.git

This will create a directory mcl-mode that contains the file /mcl-mode.org. This file can be opened in Emacs and tangled with the command: org-babel-tangle. This will result in the file mcl-mode.el. This file can be loaded in Emacs with the following code that we can add to .emacs. We will use the package use-package to load it:

in which we use the package use-package:

(eval-and-compile
  (package-initialize)
  (unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
    (package-refresh-contents)
    (package-install 'use-package)))

(use-package mcl-mode
  :load-path "mcl-mode/")

License

The MCL-mode is licensed under the Apache license.

Copyright

Copyright 2018 Pieter Hijma