
The 'Aida Mode' is a mode for the text editor 'AlphaX' for Mac
OS X (see http://alphatcl.sourceforge.net/).

The mode is an extension which lets you easily edit Aida source files, with
aida markup coloring, automatic insertion of tags, key shortcuts,
templates, etc. It also provides an interface to drive the aida command:
you can convert your source file to the various target formats directly 
from the editor AlphaX.

Installing the Aida Mode
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With a recent version of AlphaX (8.2 or greater), the Aida mode must be 
installed in one of the 'Application Support' folders.

There are two 'Application Support' folders: 

    * in the user domain: ~/Library/Application Support/AlphaX 

    * in the local domain: /Library/Application Support/AlphaX 

These folders contain a subfolder 'AlphaTcl/Tcl/Modes' which is where
you must copy the AidaMode folder.

To be more specific, the complete path will be either

	~/Library/Application Support/AlphaX/AlphaTcl/Tcl/Modes/AidaMode

or

	/Library/Application Support/AlphaX/AlphaTcl/Tcl/Modes/AidaMode



If the mode is installed in the local domain, it will be available
to all the users of the machine: you need administrator privileges to
install the mode there. If it is installed in the user domain, it is only
available to the current user and no admin privileges are required.

Using Aida Mode
===============

Next time you launch AlphaX, the new mode will be automatically detected
and indexed to work with the editor. Then any file with the '.aida',
'.ainc' or '.ainp' extensions will automatically be opened in
Aida mode. A menu named 'Aida' will be inserted in the menu bar with
all the necessary commands to edit or process Aida source files.

