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I´m trying to be able to program sml code inside of emacs. I have installed emacs 24.3 on windows and I also have installed Poly/ML Version 5.5.1. Isn´t there any way to get this working?

I tried installing SML-MODE like this: http://alleystoughton.us/sml/sml-emacs.html But it seems that I only have subdirs.el in my site-lisp directory...

I tried writing M-x sml-mode in emacs and my file with code ends with .sml

I have no syntax highlighting and tried both M-x global-font-lock-mode and sml-poly-ml but it didn´t work so Poly/ML isn´t installed in emacs? How do I get poly to work on windows with emacs?

Makarius
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The currently recommended way to install sml-mode is via M-x list-packages where sml-mode should appear and you can then just click your way to installing it, and it's then automatically enabled in .sml files.

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  • I ran M-x list-packages and I get a list of things. No one of these is called sml-mode but it exist one called sgml-mode but it seems like that are for HTML. Under the status row it says built-in on all available packages. What to do? – user3216616 Jan 22 '14 at 17:29
  • Looks like Emacs somehow failed to download the list of packages from the GNU ELPA archive. Not sure how/why that could happen. – Stefan Jan 22 '14 at 18:20
  • Does it work for you? I tried emacs on both windows and ubuntu and same result in both. I tried to shut down the firewall if that would block it but it didn´t get any better. I tried with Emacs 24.3 on windows and both emacs 23 and 24 on ubuntu.Am I the only one with this problem? I really need to get this working. I apreciate all help and responses I can get. – user3216616 Jan 22 '14 at 19:32
  • Yup: `emacs -Q` then `M-x list-packages RET` tells me "Contacting elpa.gnu.org" and after a little while shows me a list of packages among which is "sml-mode" version 6.4. – Stefan Jan 22 '14 at 20:12
  • FWIW, I'm admittedly having trouble contacting the web server on `elpa.gnu.org` which responds *very* slowly. The machine's kernel log seems to indicate that it's hammered by a storm of connections. Probably some stupid random attack that will hopefully stop when the idiots get bored and move on to another target. – Stefan Jan 22 '14 at 20:55
  • what do you mean with emacs -Q? Should I write RET after list - packages? It have been very slow connecting all the time for me. So it seems that all my connections got timed out then due to some stupid ddos or eqvivalently:( Will test again tomorrow then. Aren´t there any other source to download it from and then put it in some emacs folder? – user3216616 Jan 22 '14 at 22:22
  • now i didn´t need to wait and sml-mode was installed corectly! thx – user3216616 Jan 23 '14 at 13:27