inform-mode

After installation, inform-mode will be activated for any files ending in .inf (and optionally .h) when you visit them using Emacs. Type C-h m to view the documentation for the mode. Variables governing inform-mode can be customized; type M-x customize and navigate to Programming / Languages / inform-mode.

Inform syntax

Type TAB to indent the current line.

Type C-M-\ to indent the region.

Type M-q to fill strings or comments. This compresses multiple spaces into single spaces.

Multi-file projects

The variable inform-project-file gives the name of the root file of the project (i.e., the one that you run Inform on); it is best to set this as a local variable in each file, for example by making 

! -*- inform-project-file:\"game.inf\" -*-
the first line of the file.

Tags tables

Type C-c C-r to build (and load) a Tags table.

Type C-c C-t to load an existing Tags table. If it exists, and if the variable inform-autoload-tags is non-NIL, the Tags table is loaded on entry to Inform Mode. With a Tags table loaded, type M-. to find the declaration of the object, class or function under point.

Navigating in a file

Type M-p to go to the previous object/class declaration. Type M-n to go to the next one.

Compilation

Type C-c C-b to build the current project.

Type C-x ` to go to the next error.

Running

Type C-c C-c to run the current project in an interpreter, either as a sepaarte process or in an Emacs terminal buffer.

Font-lock support

This is normally enabled by default in recent Emacsen, but if not put (add-hook 'inform-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) in your .emacs.

Spell checking

Type C-c C-s to spell check all strings in the buffer. Type M-$ to check the single word at point.

Functions

inform-maybe-mode
Looks at the contents of a file, guesses whether it is an Inform program, runs inform-mode if so, or inform-maybe-other if not. The latter defaults to c-mode. Used for header files which might be Inform or C programs.

Miscellaneous user options

inform-startup-message
Set to nil to inhibit message first time Inform mode is used.

inform-maybe-other
The mode used by inform-maybe-mode if it guesses that the file is not an Inform program.

inform-mode-hook
This hook is run after entry to Inform Mode.

inform-autoload-tags
If non-nil, then a tags table will automatically be loaded when entering Inform mode.

inform-auto-newline
If non-nil, then newlines are automatically inserted before and after braces, and after semicolons in Inform code, and after commas in object declarations.

User options controlling indentation style

Values in parentheses are the default indentation style.

inform-indent-property (8)
Indentation of a property or attribute in an object declaration.

inform-indent-has-with-class (1)
Indentation of has/with/class/private lines in object declaration.

inform-indent-level (4)
Indentation of line of code in a block relative to the first line of the block.

inform-indent-label-offset (-3)
Indentation of a line starting with a label, relative to the indentation if the label were absent.

inform-indent-cont-statement (4)
Indentation of second and subsequent lines of a statement, relative to the first.

inform-indent-fixup-space (T)
If non-NIL, fix up space after Object, Class, Nearby, has, private and with, so that all the object's properties line up.

inform-indent-action-column (40)
Column at which action names should be placed in verb declarations. If NIL, then action names are not moved.

inform-comments-line-up-p (NIL)
If non-NIL, comments spread out over several lines will start on the same column as the first comment line.

inform-strings-line-up-p (NIL)
Variable controlling indentation of multi-line strings. If nil (default), string will be indented according to context. If a number, will always set the indentation to that column. If 'char', will line up with the first character of the string. If 'quote', or other non-nil value, will line up with open quote on first line.

inform-indent-semicolon (T)
If nil, a semicolon on a line of its own will not be indented.>

User options to do with compilation

inform-command
The shell command with which to run the Inform compiler.

inform-libraries-directory
If non-NIL, gives the directory in which the Inform libraries are found.

inform-command-options
Additional options with which to call the Inform compiler.

User options to do with an interpreter

inform-interpreter-command
The command with which to run the ZCode interpreter. Can be a string (a command to be run), a symbol (name of function to call) or a function.

inform-interpreter-options
Additional options with which to call the ZCode interpreter. Only used if inform-interpreter-command is a string.

inform-interpreter-kill-old-process
If non-NIL, inform-run-project will kill any running interpreter process and start a new one. If not, will switch to the interpreter's buffer (if necessary - see documentation for inform-run-project for details).

inform-interpreter-is-graphical
If NIL, inform-run-project will switch to the interpreter buffer after running the interpreter.