Plugin for the GNU EMACS editor

cp2k-mode.el provides a major mode in emacs for editing CP2K input files. It has been tested on emacs 21, 23 and 24.

Functionalities

Recognises and font-locks

the full CP2K input preprocessor syntax
the sections and subsections
the keywords
the comment lines

Indents lines according to the CP2K input syntax using <tab> key

Input sections can be folded or unfolded, using emacs ''outline-minor-mode''

outline-toggle-children when called on an unfolded section, folds the section recursively; when called on a folded section, unfolds the top level tree
show-all when called unfolds all sections recursively
show-subtree when called unfolds a folded section recursively

New interactive functions

cp2k-indent-line :: indents the line according to CP2K input syntax.
cp2k-beginning-of-block :: goes to the beginning of the subsection, marks the current cursor position.
cp2k-end-of-block :: goes to the ending of the subsection, marks the current cursor position.

Key Bindings

<tab> :: cp2k-indent-line
C-j :: newline-and-indent
C-c ; :: comment-region
C-M-a :: cp2k-beginning-of-block
C-M-e :: cp2k-end-of-block
C-c C-c :: outline-toggle-children
C-c C-a :: show-all
C-c C-t :: show-subtree

How to Obtain

You can download cp2k-mode.el from the CP2K Repository.

If you already have the code checked out locally, you can find it in:

cp2k/tools/input_editing/emacs/

Installation

You need to put cp2k-mode.el in one of your local emacs lisp directories, which is in the search path of your emacs installation.

Adding to emacs's search path

If you have never installed any packages manually before, and do not know the search path of your emacs installation, then in your home directory create directory:

~/.emacs.d/lisp/

This is the usual place where the local/user defined emacs lisp files are installed. Move cp2k-mode.el to ~/.emacs.d/lisp/

Then, add the following to your .emacs file (which should be in your home directory, and if it does not exist, create one):

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/")

This tells emacs to add ~/.emacs.d/lisp/ to its search path for *.el files.

Tell emacs to load cp2k-mode.el at startup

Once cp2k-mode.el is in the search path, we need to tell emacs to load it at start up, this is done by adding

(require 'cp2k-mode nil 'noerror)

to your .emacs file.

Tell emacs to recognise *.inp automatically as a cp2k input file

Add

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.inp\\'" . cp2k-mode))

to your .emacs file.