CompanyProfiles(2)

COMPANY PROFILES

This section describes how a company profile should be incorporated into MicroEmacs. A company profile defines a set of extensions to MicroEmacs which encapsulate settings which are used on a company wide basis. This type of configuration is typically used with a networked (shared) installation. The company profile would typically include:-

• Name of the company.
• Standard header files including company copyright statements.
• Standard file layouts
• Company defined language extensions.

Location Of The Company Information

It is suggested that all of the company extensions applied to MicroEmacs are performed in a separate directory location which shadows the MicroEmacs standard macro file directory. This enables the original files to be sourced if a user does not want to include the company files. This method also allows MicroEmacs to be updated in the future, whilst retaining the company files.

The company files are generally placed in the company sub-directory described in the installation notes.

Content Of The Company Information

Company macro file


The company file is typically called by the company name (i.e. jasspa.emf) create a new company file. The file includes your company name and hook functions for any new file types that have been defined for the company, an example company file for Jasspa might be defined as:-

; -!- emf -!- 
; Copyright (C) 2025 JASSPA (www.jasspa.com). 
; 
; This is part of JASSPA's MicroEmacs, see the LICENSE file for licensing and 
; copying information. 
; 
; Synopsis:    JASSPA company setup file 
; Authors:     Steven Phillips 
; 
; Define the name, url & license of the company. 
set-variable %company-name "Jasspa" 
set-variable %company-url "www.jasspa.com" 
set-variable %company-license "This is part of JASSPA's MicroEmacs, ..." 
; Add Jasspa specific file hooks 
; Make-up foo major-mode and file hook 
1 major-mode "foo" 
; Override the make with localised build command 
set-variable %compile-com "build" 

The file contains company specific major-modes and the name of the company.

Other Company Files


Files defined on behalf of the company are included in the company directory. These would include:-

• Template header files etf(8).
• Major-mode file hook definitions (hkXXX.emf) for company specific files, see major-mode(2).
• Extensions to the standard hook definitions (myXXX.emf) for company specific language extensions to the standard hook files. See File Hooks and File Language Templates.

SEE ALSO

$MEINSTALLPATH(5), $MENAME(5), $MEPATH(5), File Hooks, major-mode(2), File Language Templates, Installation, user-setup(3), User Profiles.

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