Emacs Module in Rust

This provides a high level binding to emacs-module, and some tools that make writing Emacs (dynamic) modules easier.

Writing a Module

• Modify your Cargo.toml: ```toml [lib] crate-type = ["cdylib"]

  [dependencies] emacs = "0.3.0" ```

• Write some code in your src/lib.rs following this skeleton. ```rust

  [macro_use]

  extern crate emacs;

  use emacs::{Env, Result, Value};

  emacspluginisGPLcompatible!(); emacsmoduleinit!(init);

  pub fn init(env: &mut Env) -> Result { // Initialization code

  env.provide("my-module") } ```

• Build the code with cargo build
• Create a symlink with .so extension shell cd target/debug ln -s libmy_module.dylib my-module.so
• Add target/debug to your Emacs's load-path.
• Load it in Emacs emacs-lisp (require 'my-module)

Live Reloading

Emacs does not support unloading modules. Live reloading thus requires a custom module loader. rs-module is one such loader (which itself is a module that must be loaded by Emacs's normal loading mechanism). See load.sh.

Sample Modules

test-module uses most of the provided features.

Development

• Building: shell cargo build --all
• Testing: shell bin/test.sh
• Continuous testing (requires cargo-watch): shell cargo watch -x 'build --all' -s bin/test.sh