kappa-mode is a GNU/Emacs major mode for editing files written in
the Kappa modeling language. The mode
knows enough about Kappa syntax to do some basic fontification but
does currently not do indentation or proper slashification.
kappa-mode is free software distributed under the GPL. You can
download the latest version from the Github
repository.
In order to use kappa-mode just copy the file kappa.el to your
~/.emacs.d directory and add the following to your ~/.emacs
configuration file:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d")
(require 'kappa)
Alternatively, you may load kappa.el directly using the following
command:
(load-file "~/.emacs.d/kappa.el")
If you are using a version of KaSim older than KaSim 4, use the
kappa.el file from the KaSim3-compat branch
here
instead.
The syntax highlighting is quite intense by default (almost every
character is highlighted in some way) but also highly customizable.
Users that are unhappy with the default font lock color scheme may
change it through the numerous font face customization variables
(kappa-keyword-face, kappa-agent-name-face,
kappa-rule-operator-face, etc.)
In addition to the syntax highlighting, the mode provides two
convenience functions for simulating the current Kappa file
(kappa-run-sim, mapped to C-c C-r) and plotting the result
(kappa-plot-sim, mapped to C-c C-p). The former requires
KaSim and the later
Gnuplot to be installed. The executable
paths of these tools can be adjusted through the customization
variables kappa-sim-executable-path and
kappa-gnuplot-executable-path respectively.
gnuplot-mode will be
used for plotting if present but is not a requirement.
If you have questions, check the built-in documentation, e.g. by
typing C-h C-f kappa-run-sim, or try asking for help on the Kappa
users mailing list. Use
Github to report bugs
and other issues.
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There seems to be a bug when using Kappa mode at the same time as CEDET causing Emacs to fontify the entire buffer with font-lock-comment-face.
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Support for automatic indentation is missing.