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I'm trying to install (and run) scilab-mode, but the syntax highlighting does not work when I open .sci or .sce file.

I use the exact configuration described in the scilab.el package.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/scilab.el

Any help?

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  • With so few details about what you've done, it will likely take psychic powers to figure out the solution.
    – Stefan
    Oct 21, 2019 at 18:47
  • For the beginning you can reduce your setup to (defvar default-fill-column (default-value 'fill-column)) (autoload 'scilab-mode "scilab") (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(sci\\|sce\\)\\'" . scilab-mode)). Try that and report whether scilab-mode works for you afterwards. Note, that this does not include scilab-shell yet.
    – Tobias
    Oct 22, 2019 at 0:16
  • Note that posting: lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-01/msg00542.html about default-fill-column.
    – Tobias
    Oct 22, 2019 at 0:20
  • Note that the above setup does not include scilab-shell yet. For scilab-shell to work you have to setup scilab-shell-command, e.g. by (defvar scilab-shell-command) (setq scilab-shell-command "scilab-adv-cli") (autoload 'scilab-shell "scilab"). But, they removed scilex from scilab. So I do not know whether scilab-shell will work as expected for you. (Note, that I do not use scilab anymore so much. I use octave instead because of Cygwin support and Matlab compatibility.)
    – Tobias
    Oct 22, 2019 at 0:24

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The help page clearly says that this is an old script which does not work with the current version of Emacs without adapting it. It's really a shame and I would also be interested, but this elisp script is simply orphaned.

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  • It's probably quite easy to update the package. I'd have done it already if the copyright paperwork allowed it to be included in GNU ELPA. But I can't even find a currently valid email for its author Alexander Vigodner :-(
    – Stefan
    Oct 22, 2019 at 12:53

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