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#+TITLE: asm layer
[[file:img/asm.png]]
* Table of Contents :TOC_4_gh:noexport:
- [[#description][Description]]
- [[#features][Features:]]
- [[#install][Install]]
- [[#layer][Layer]]
- [[#pdfs][PDFs]]
- [[#key-bindings][Key bindings]]
* Description
This layer adds support for Assembly code. The built-in major mode for
editing assembly code in Emacs is =asm-mode=.
The layer also adds =nasm-mode= for NASM-specific syntax. Although =nasm-mode=
is intended for NASM, it actually works well with other variants of Assembly
in general, and provides Imenu integration so you can jump around with ~SPC s j~.
** Features:
- Improved syntax highlighting.
- Automatic indentation.
- Auto-completion for symbol in opened buffers.
- Look up documentation for current instruction at cursor.
- Imenu integration.
* Install
** Layer
To use this configuration layer, add it to your =~/.spacemacs=. You will need to
add =asm= to the existing =dotspacemacs-configuration-layers= list in this
file.
** PDFs
To look up the x86 instructions, two things are required:
- the =pdftotext= command line tool from Poppler:
#+begin_src sh
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
#+end_src
- [[https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm][Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals]]. Any PDF that
contains the full instruction set reference will work, though volume 2 is the
best choice for x86-lookup.
Then, set =x86-lookup-pdf= to the location of your PDF document (Tip: If you use
Helm as your completion of choice, you can use ~SPC f f~ to navigate to the
file, and press ~C-c i~ to insert the path). For example, something like this:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq x86-lookup-pdf "~/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-instruction-set-reference-manual-325383.pdf")
#+end_src
The first time you launch the command, it can take a while for indexing, this
is a one time operation and the result is cached for later use.
* Key bindings
| Key Binding | Description |
|-------------+----------------------------------------------------|
| ~SPC m h h~ | Look up the documentation for instruction at point |
| ~;~ | Insert a comment |
_Note_: Quoted from the docstring of =asm-comment=, the command bound to ~;~:
#+begin_src text
Convert an empty comment to a `larger' kind, or start a new one.
These are the known comment classes:
1 -- comment to the right of the code (at the comment-column)
2 -- comment on its own line, indented like code
3 -- comment on its own line, beginning at the left-most column.
Suggested usage: while writing your code, trigger asm-comment
repeatedly until you are satisfied with the kind of comment.
#+end_src