Add an emacs mode for gn files.

tools/gn/misc/emacs/gn.el

+;;; gn.el - A major mode for editing gn files.
+
+;; Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+;; Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+;; found in the LICENSE file.
+
+;; Put this somewhere in your load-path and
+;; (require 'gn)
+
+;; TODO(erg): There's a lot of general improvements that could be made here:
+;;
+;; - We syntax highlight builtin actions, but don't highlight instantiations of
+;;   templates. Should we?
+;; - fill-paragraph works for comments, but when pointed at code, breaks
+;;   spectacularly.
+;; - Might want to support imenu users. Even if it's just a list of toplevel
+;;   targets?
+
+(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))       ;For the `case' macro.
+(require 'smie)
+
+(defvar gn-font-lock-target-declaration-keywords
+  '("action" "action_foreach" "copy" "executable" "group"
+    "shared_library" "source_set" "static_library"))
+
+(defvar gn-font-lock-buildfile-fun-keywords
+  '("assert" "config" "declare_args" "defined" "exec_script" "foreach"
+    "get_label_info" "get_path_info" "get_target_outputs" "getenv" "import"
+    "print" "process_file_template" "read_file" "rebase_path"
+    "set_default_toolchain" "set_defaults" "set_sources_assignment_filter"
+    "template" "tool" "toolchain" "toolchain_args" "write_file"))
+
+(defvar gn-font-lock-predefined-var-keywords
+  '("current_cpu" "current_os" "current_toolchain" "default_toolchain"
+    "host_cpu" "host_os" "python_path" "root_build_dir" "root_gen_dir"
+    "root_out_dir" "target_cpu" "target_gen_dir" "target_os" "target_out_dir"))
+
+(defvar gn-font-lock-var-keywords
+  '("all_dependent_configs" "allow_circular_includes_from" "args" "cflags"
+    "cflags_c" "cflags_cc" "cflags_objc" "cflags_objcc" "check_includes"
+    "complete_static_lib" "configs" "data" "data_deps" "defines" "depfile"
+    "deps" "forward_dependent_configs_from" "include_dirs" "inputs"
+    "ldflags" "lib_dirs" "libs" "output_extension" "output_name" "outputs"
+    "public" "public_configs" "public_deps" "script" "sources" "testonly"
+    "visibility"))
+
+(defconst gn-font-lock-keywords
+  `((,(regexp-opt gn-font-lock-target-declaration-keywords 'words) .
+     font-lock-keyword-face)
+    (,(regexp-opt gn-font-lock-buildfile-fun-keywords 'words) .
+     font-lock-function-name-face)
+    (,(regexp-opt gn-font-lock-predefined-var-keywords 'words) .
+     font-lock-constant-face)
+    (,(regexp-opt gn-font-lock-var-keywords 'words) .
+     font-lock-variable-name-face)))
+
+(defvar gn-indent-basic 2)
+
+(defun gn-smie-rules (kind token)
+  "These are slightly modified indentation rules from the SMIE
+  Indentation Example info page. This changes the :before rule
+  and adds a :list-intro to handle our x = [ ] syntax."
+  (pcase (cons kind token)
+    (`(:elem . basic) gn-indent-basic)
+    (`(,_ . ",") (smie-rule-separator kind))
+    (`(:list-intro . "") gn-indent-basic)
+    (`(:before . ,(or `"[" `"(" `"{"))
+     (if (smie-rule-hanging-p) (smie-rule-parent)))
+    (`(:before . "if")
+     (and (not (smie-rule-bolp)) (smie-rule-prev-p "else")
+          (smie-rule-parent)))))
+
+(define-derived-mode gn-mode prog-mode "GN"

[Nico, 2015/03/31 18:01:35]

does this have to be ###autoload too?

+  "Major mode for editing gn (Generate Ninja)."
+
+  (setq-local font-lock-defaults '(gn-font-lock-keywords))
+
+  (setq-local comment-use-syntax t)
+  (setq-local comment-start "#")
+  (setq-local comment-end "")
+
+  (smie-setup nil #'gn-smie-rules)
+  (setq-local smie-indent-basic gn-indent-basic)
+
+  ;; python style comment: “# …”
+  (modify-syntax-entry ?# "< b" gn-mode-syntax-table)
+  (modify-syntax-entry ?\n "> b" gn-mode-syntax-table)
+  (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w" gn-mode-syntax-table))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("$BUILD.gn^" . gn-mode))

[Nico, 2015/03/31 18:01:35]

Shouldn't the ^ be in the front and the $ in the back?

+(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.gni\\'" . gn-mode))

[Nico, 2015/03/31 18:01:35]

$ instead of \\ at the end?

+
+(provide 'gn-mode)