mattfidler / nsis-mode

NSIS mode for editing NSIS files

NSIS-mode

Matthew L. Fidler

Library Information

nsis-mode.el --- NSIS-mode

• Filename -- nsis-mode.el
• Description -- NSIS mode
• Author -- Matthew L. Fidler
• Maintainer -- Matthew L. Fidler
• Created -- Tue Nov 16 15:48:02 2010 (-0600)
• Version -- 0.45
• Last-Updated -- Wed May 23 10:15:50 2013 (+0100)
• By -- Jan T. Sott
• Update # -- 1479
• URL -- http:__github.com_mlf176f2_nsis-mode
• Keywords -- NSIS
• Compatibility -- Emacs 23.2

Possible Dependencies

None

A major mode for editing nsis files

Installation

If you're using use-package you can add this to your init file:

(use-package nsis-mode)

That's all!

Else you can install nsis-mode from Melpa via M-x package-install, then add the following to your Emacs:

(autoload 'nsis-mode "nsis-mode" "NSIS mode" t)

(setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\.[Nn][Ss][HhIi]\'" . nsis-mode)) auto-mode-alist))

History

• 23-May-2018 -- Added new commands added since NSIS 3.0, added missing control keywords. (Jan T. Sott)
• 08-Jul-2013 -- Added new NSIS 3.0a0 commands, sorted command list. (Jan T. Sott)
• 20-Aug-2012 -- Added nsis-indent-level to allow customization of indentation. (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 08-Jun-2012 -- Changed _ to syntax class (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 16-May-2012 -- Added label indentation support for labels of the form "label_${ONE}:" (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 16-May-2012 -- Fixed random hang (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 16-May-2012 -- Attempted to fix random hangs. It could be due to indentation infinite loop, so made sure (bobp) is always checked at the beginning of the line. (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 01-Mar-2012 -- Added website. (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 01-Mar-2012 -- Bug fix for syntax table. (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 19-Dec-2011 -- Looks for makensis if can't find in program files. (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 19-Dec-2011 -- Added .nsi and .nsh autoload (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 07-Feb-2011 -- Added check to make sure compile went OK before launching executable. (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 25-Jan-2011 -- Added more explicit setup instructions (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 06-Dec-2010 -- Changed comment start and comment stop to single line semi-colons (Matthew L. Fidler)
• 06-Dec-2010 -- Made nsis-yas-description not depend on finding MUI
  FUNCTION<_ul>DESCRIPTION
  BEGIN. If MUI<_ul>DESCRIPTION_TEXT is found, insert there. (Matthew L. Fidler)
  • 06-Dec-2010 -- Updated indentation line function (bug-fix) (Matthew L. Fidler)
  • 23-Nov-2010 -- Macros that end with END or BEGIN are indentation keywords. (Matthew L. Fidler)
  • 23-Nov-2010 -- Changed indentation routine (bugfix) ()

nsis-mode's Issues

`nsis-syntax-reserved-word` is too greedy

Hello,

Whenever we use "name" or "caption" in a define it gets wrongly highlighted:

Basically all the words in https://github.com/mattfidler/nsis-mode/blob/master/nsis-mode.el#L128 are highlighted too greedy not matter what.

Emacs hangs with special continuation line

Emacs hangs, if a continuation line starts with an equal sign.
How to reproduce:

load a file with nsis-mode
;====== snippet begin ====
MessageBox MB_OK "Installation failed!$\r$\n
#= abort installation"

MessageBox MB_OK "Installation failed!$\r$\n
= abort installation"
;====== snippet end ====

delete the hash => emacs hangs immediately and needs to be killed

void-variable nsis-start-keywords

Worked fine when I installed it from elpa. However, if I shut down Emacs and, later, restart it, going to a .nsi file gets me an error:
File mode specification error: (void-variable nsis-start-keywords) defvar: Symbol’s value as variable is void: nsis-start-keywords File mode specification error: (void-variable nsis-start-keywords) [2 times]
Only way I can recover from this that I've found so far is by re-installing nsis mode from elpa.
This is using Emacs 29.1 on Windows 11.

nsis-mode.el compiles with error

nsis-mode.el:949:5: Error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: nsis-syntax-variable

this error happens in batch mode emacs -Q --batch --eval '(byte-compile-file "nsis-mode.el")' and interactively via menu with Emacs

Compile commands fail on 64 bit emacs

The compile commands use (getenv "ProgramFiles") to find the NSIS executables. This doesn't work on a 64 bit machine with 64 bit emacs because NSIS is currently 32 bit. It can be fixed as a kludge by substituting (getenv "ProgramFiles(x86)"), but that might not work on a 32 bit machine. I don't know enough about emacs Lisp to come up with a generic solution.