Adding Groovy Emacs Mode

I’ve been doing a lot of Gradle/Groovy work lately, and have been using Russel’s Groovy Emacs Mode.

That page provides the documentation for the case where you’re going to put all the *.el files into ~/.emacs.d. However, to keep things nice and organized I put third-party code into a vendor directory under ~/.emacs.d/lisp.

So for the Groovy mode, I added ~/.emacs.d/lisp/vendor/groovy-mode, extracted Russell’s tarball into that, and added these lines to my jep-groovy.el file:

;;; use groovy-mode when file ends in .groovy or has #!/bin/groovy at start
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/vendor/groovy-mode")
(autoload 'groovy-mode "groovy-mode" "Major mode for editing Groovy code." t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\.groovy$" . groovy-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\.gradle$" . groovy-mode))
(add-to-list 'interpreter-mode-alist '("groovy" . groovy-mode))

;;; make Groovy mode electric by default.
(add-hook 'groovy-mode-hook
          '(lambda ()
             (require 'groovy-electric)
             (groovy-electric-mode)))

DoctorJ Now on GitHub

DoctorJ is now here on GitHub.

Version 5.2.0 is in development, bringing it up to date with the PMD abstract syntax tree (and thus Java 1.6), and the build will be converted to Gradle instead of Ant. I am also considering adding spell-checking for strings.