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Is there a mode for editing Visual Basic source?

Kevin Whitefoot <kevin.whitefoot@nopow.abb.no> has extended Fred White's original visual basic mode. The new version also understands vbg and vbp files, and automatically loads all associated files.

For your .emacs file:

;;; VB editing
(autoload 'visual-basic-mode "visual-basic-mode" "Visual Basic mode." t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\.\(frm\\|bas\\|cls\\)$" .
                                  visual-basic-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
(autoload 'vbp-mode "visual-basic-mode" "VBP mode." t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\.\(vbg\\|vbg\\)$" .
                                  vbp-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
(setq visual-basic-ide-pathname "E:/Program Files/DevStudio/VB/VB5.EXE")

(autoload 'vbp-mode "vbp-mode" "VBP mode." t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\.vbp$" .
                     vbp-mode)) auto-mode-alist))


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