This Emacs package provides indentation, syntax highlighting, and other facilities for PureScript language.

GNU Emacs version 25.1 or later is officially supported. It may work with other Emacsen, but we don't have the resources to support other versions.

Users of MELPA can install purescript-mode using M-x package-install. This is the most straightforward and recommended installation method.

• git clone https://github.com/purescript-emacs/purescript-mode.git into a suitable directory, e.g. ~/lib/emacs/purescript-mode/ where ~ stands for your home directory.

• Assuming you have unpacked the various purescript-mode modules (purescript-mode.el and the rest) in the directory ~/lib/emacs/purescript-mode/, you need generate the autoloads file (purescript-mode-autoloads.el) by either

  • Invoking make purescript-mode-autoloads.el, or make all (use this to perform byte-compilation and Info manual generation)

  • From inside Emacs, M-x update-directory-autoloads and answering the question for the folder with ~/lib/emacs/purescript-mode/ and the question for the output-file with ~/lib/emacs/purescript-mode/purescript-mode-autoloads.el

  and then adding the following command to your .emacs:

  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/lib/emacs/purescript-mode/")
  (require 'purescript-mode-autoloads)
  (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/lib/emacs/purescript-mode/")

• After updating your purescript-mode working directory, you need to re-run make all or M-x update-directory-autoloads.

PureScript mode provides multiple indentation engines, and leaves the choice up to the user. To have indentation an according indentation mode needs to be enabled. Otherwise, attempting to indent will print an error describing this.

Minimal configuration may look something like:

(use-package purescript-mode
  :defer t
  :config
  (defun myhook-purescript-mode ()
    (turn-on-purescript-indentation)
    (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'purescript-sort-imports nil t))
  (add-hook 'purescript-mode-hook #'myhook-purescript-mode))