31 Editing Programs

Emacs provides many features to facilitate editing programs. Some of these features can

• Find or move over top-level definitions (see Defuns).
• Apply the usual indentation conventions of the language (see Program Indent).
• Balance parentheses (see Parentheses).
• Insert, kill or align comments (see Comments).
• Highlight program syntax (see Font Lock).

This chapter describes these features and many more.

• Program Modes: Major modes for editing programs.
• Defuns: Commands to operate on major top-level parts of a program.
• Program Indent: Adjusting indentation to show the nesting.
• Parentheses: Commands that operate on parentheses.
• Comments: Inserting, killing, and aligning comments.
• Documentation: Getting documentation of functions you plan to call.
• Hideshow: Displaying blocks selectively.
• Symbol Completion: Completion on symbol names of your program or language.
• Glasses: Making identifiersLikeThis more readable.
• Misc for Programs: Other Emacs features useful for editing programs.
• C Modes: Special commands of C, C++, Objective-C, Java, and Pike modes.
• Fortran: Fortran mode and its special features.
• Asm Mode: Asm mode and its special features.