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Saltstack mode for emacs

How can I get Emacs to work with Salt files? Is there some code already available, or how can I create a mode myself?

There's a Sublime Text plugin that does something similar.

Thanks

Solution

  • The sublime text config you linked to appears to just use a YAML mode, so you could do the same thing using the yaml-mode available for Emacs:

    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.sls\\'" . yaml-mode))

    or if you wanted to incorporate the tab settings from that sublime config, you could create a new mode like so:

    (require 'yaml-mode)

(define-derived-mode saltstack-mode yaml-mode "Saltstack"
  "Minimal Saltstack mode, based on `yaml-mode'."
  (setq tab-width 2
        indent-tabs-mode nil))

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.sls\\'" . saltstack-mode))

    (n.b. untested)