Pascal Mode for Emacs

[Agnar Renolen]

This is a feature request rather than a bug report, concerning Pascal 
Mode for Emacs, of which I'm running the version 20.5 for Windows.

I would like to see Pascal mode handle extensions originally introduced 
in TurboPascal/Borland Pascal, and also adopted in FreePascal (the 
latter is released under GNU GPL and is availble from 
www.freepascal.org).  I'm using FreePascal my self, and would prefer the 
Emacs editor over the free pascal IDE, if only a few more features were 
supported.  I really like the automatic indentation of type declarations.

First, it does not recognize the keywords UNIT, INTERFACE and 
IMPLEMENTATION which are used to build Pascal Libraries.  It shouldn't 
be too difficult to get them colored in font-lock mode.

Second, it does not handle class declarations, in OO-pascal.  These 
might be on the form:


   POcd5Input      = ^TOcd5Input;
   TOcd5Input      = object
      constructor OpenFile( fileName :String);
      destructor  CloseFile;

      procedure   ResetFile;
      function    GetNextElement(var theElement : TOcd5Element) : Boolean;

      private
         itsHeader      : TOcd5FileHeader; { contains header info }
         itsCurrentItem : integer;         { index of next item to be 
read }
         itsIndexCount  : longint;         { number of items in index }
         itsFile        : File;            { file reference }
   end;


I'm not an Emacs Lisp expert, so I don't feel confident that I can do it 
my self.  Hope somebody else would do it.

Yours Sincerely
Agnar  Renolen