I'm trying to install (and run) scilab-mode, but the syntax highlighting does not work when I open .sci or .sce file.
I use the exact configuration described in the scilab.el package.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/scilab.el
Any help?
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The help page clearly says that this is an old script which does not work with the current version of Emacs without adapting it. It's really a shame and I would also be interested, but this elisp script is simply orphaned.
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It's probably quite easy to update the package. I'd have done it already if the copyright paperwork allowed it to be included in GNU ELPA. But I can't even find a currently valid email for its author Alexander Vigodner :-(Stefan– Stefan2019-10-22 12:53:41 +00:00Commented Oct 22, 2019 at 12:53
(defvar default-fill-column (default-value 'fill-column)) (autoload 'scilab-mode "scilab") (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(sci\\|sce\\)\\'" . scilab-mode)). Try that and report whetherscilab-modeworks for you afterwards. Note, that this does not includescilab-shellyet.default-fill-column.scilab-shellyet. Forscilab-shellto work you have to setupscilab-shell-command, e.g. by(defvar scilab-shell-command) (setq scilab-shell-command "scilab-adv-cli") (autoload 'scilab-shell "scilab"). But, they removedscilexfromscilab. So I do not know whetherscilab-shellwill work as expected for you. (Note, that I do not usescilabanymore so much. I useoctaveinstead because of Cygwin support and Matlab compatibility.)