1.4 Emacs support

mdk includes extensive support for Emacs. Upon installation, all the elisp code is installed in PREFIX/share/mdk, where PREFIX stands for your installation root directory (e.g. /usr/local). You can copy the elisp files to a directory that is in your load-path, or you can add the above directory to it. Assuming that the installing prefix is /usr/local, you can do it by adding to your .emacs file the following line:

     (setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/share/mdk" load-path))

MIXAL programs can be written using Emacs and the elisp program share/mdk/mixal-mode.el, contributed by Pieter E. J. Pareit. It provides font locking, interactive help, compiling assistance and invocation of the MIX virtual machine via a new major mode called mixal-mode. To start mixal-mode automatically whenever you edit a MIXAL source file, add the following lines to your .emacs file:

     (autoload 'mixal-mode "mixal-mode" t)
     (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.mixal\\'" . mixal-mode))

In addition, mixvm can be run within an Emacs GUD buffer using the elisp program share/mdk/mixvm.el, contributed by Philip E. King. mixvm.el provides an interface between mdk's mixvm and Emacs, via GUD. Place this file in your load-path, optionally adding the following line to your .emacs file:

     (autoload 'mixvm "mixvm" "mixvm/gud interaction" t)