Update 2011-05-04:
It seems like Marco Pessotto has taken ownership (at least he did some heavy updating to get the mode running on more modern Emacsen) of the mode. Thank you Marco. The updated mode is available here: http://xahlee.org/3d/povray_emacs.html.
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I have stopped used PoV-ray and emacs since several years, so if someone is willing to take over this project I'm willing to let him/her do so. I will not continue developing it and it would be a shame to see it vanish completely.
I am sorry for those who has sent me mail asking for assistance and not got any but life is taking to much of my time.
Regards Peter Toneby
Released Aug 29 2003
This mode has been updated to 3.1-standard by me, Peter Toneby.
Christoph Hormann has provided updates to 3.5, I've tried to retain as much of 3.1 compatibility as possible
Pov-mode does now have a nice configurationpage reachable from the options, use that to change most of the defaults. To change keybindings you need to change the .el-file.
See the .el-file for a changelog.
Here is a list of default keybindings.
| Keycombo | Description |
|---|---|
| S-F1 | keywordhelp, looks in povuser.txt. |
| C-c C-c | Give a command see list below. |
| M-tab | Expand the current keyword. |
| C-c C-l | Show the result of the render. |
| C-c i | Loads a default includefile. |
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Render | Render the image. |
| Test quality render | Render a test image. |
| Low quality render | Render a low quality image. |
| Medium quality render | Make a medium quality render. |
| High quality render | guess what this does!!! |
| Internal view | Show the image internally in emacs. |
| External view | Spawn an external image viewer. |
This has been tested with XEmacs 21.4 and with Emacs 21.2
All info here is also in the pov-mode.el file, which you can get here
The following two statements, placed in your .emacs file or site-init.el, will cause the PoV-mode to be loaded and invoked when visiting .pov and .inc files:
;; Where did you install the POV-mode? Change the path to whatever
;; it's supposed to be
(setq load-path (cons "/home/peter/lib/emacs/" load-path))
;; Set autoloading of POV-mode for these file-types.
(autoload 'pov-mode "pov-mode.el" "PoVray scene file mode" t)
(setq auto-mode-alist
(append '(("\\.pov$" . pov-mode)
("\\.inc$" . pov-mode)
) auto-mode-alist))
(add-hook 'pov-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)These variables can be set in your .emacs (defaults given):
(setq pov-indent-level '2)
(setq pov-autoindent-endblocks t) ;; Automatically reindents else/end/break
(setq pov-indent-under-declare '2) ;; Try it! Tell me if you like it...
(setq pov-fontify-insanely t) ;; When it's non-nil, we fontify *every*
;; Povray keyword. Careful!
(setq pov-home-dir "/usr/local/lib/povray31/") ;;Where the pov-helpfile is
;; located
(setq pov-help-file "povuser.txt") ;; What the helpfile is called
If you have problems with:
File mode specification error: (error "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size")Then you have to add something like:
(setq max-specpdl-size 1000)Before the auto-mode-alist statement.