diff --git a/elpa/vala-mode-0.1/vala-mode-autoloads.el b/elpa/vala-mode-0.1/vala-mode-autoloads.el
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@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+;;; vala-mode-autoloads.el --- automatically extracted autoloads
+;;
+;;; Code:
+
+
+;;;### (autoloads (vala-mode) "vala-mode" "vala-mode.el" (21563 47075
+;;;;;;  914027 460000))
+;;; Generated autoloads from vala-mode.el
+
+(autoload 'vala-mode "vala-mode" "\
+Major mode for editing Vala code.
+This is a simple example of a separate mode derived from CC Mode
+to support a language with syntax similar to
+C#/C/C++/ObjC/Java/IDL/Pike.
+
+The hook `c-mode-common-hook' is run with no args at mode
+initialization, then `vala-mode-hook'.
+
+Key bindings:
+\\{vala-mode-map}
+
+\(fn)" t nil)
+
+;;;***
+
+;;;### (autoloads nil nil ("vala-mode-pkg.el") (21563 47075 955666
+;;;;;;  799000))
+
+;;;***
+
+(provide 'vala-mode-autoloads)
+;; Local Variables:
+;; version-control: never
+;; no-byte-compile: t
+;; no-update-autoloads: t
+;; coding: utf-8
+;; End:
+;;; vala-mode-autoloads.el ends here
diff --git a/elpa/vala-mode-0.1/vala-mode-pkg.el b/elpa/vala-mode-0.1/vala-mode-pkg.el
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+(define-package "vala-mode" "0.1" "Vala mode derived mode" (quote nil))
diff --git a/elpa/vala-mode-0.1/vala-mode.el b/elpa/vala-mode-0.1/vala-mode.el
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+;;; vala-mode.el --- Vala mode derived mode
+
+;; Author:     2005 Dylan R. E. Moonfire
+;;	       2008 Étienne BERSAC
+;; Maintainer: Étienne BERSAC <bersace03@laposte.net>
+;; Created:    2008 May the 4th
+;; Modified:   May 2008
+;; Version:    0.1
+;; Keywords:   vala languages oop
+
+;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+;; (at your option) any later version.
+;; 
+;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;; 
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+;;
+;;    See http://live.gnome.org/Vala for details about Vala language.
+;;
+;;    This is a separate mode to implement the Vala constructs and
+;;    font-locking. It is mostly the csharp-mode from
+;;    http://mfgames.com/linux/csharp-mode with vala specific keywords
+;;    and filename suffixes.
+;;
+;;    Note: The interface used in this file requires CC Mode 5.30 or
+;;    later.
+
+;;; .emacs (don't put in (require 'vala-mode))
+;; (autoload 'vala-mode "vala-mode" "Major mode for editing Vala code." t)
+;; (setq auto-mode-alist
+;;    (append '(("\\.vala$" . vala-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
+
+;;; Versions:
+;;
+;;	0.1	: Initial version based on csharp-mode
+;;
+
+;; This is a copy of the function in cc-mode which is used to handle
+;; the eval-when-compile which is needed during other times.
+(defun c-filter-ops (ops opgroup-filter op-filter &optional xlate)
+  ;; See cc-langs.el, a direct copy.
+  (unless (listp (car-safe ops))
+    (setq ops (list ops)))
+  (cond ((eq opgroup-filter t)
+	 (setq opgroup-filter (lambda (opgroup) t)))
+	((not (functionp opgroup-filter))
+	 (setq opgroup-filter `(lambda (opgroup)
+				 (memq opgroup ',opgroup-filter)))))
+  (cond ((eq op-filter t)
+	 (setq op-filter (lambda (op) t)))
+	((stringp op-filter)
+	 (setq op-filter `(lambda (op)
+			    (string-match ,op-filter op)))))
+  (unless xlate
+    (setq xlate 'identity))
+  (c-with-syntax-table (c-lang-const c-mode-syntax-table)
+    (delete-duplicates
+     (mapcan (lambda (opgroup)
+	       (when (if (symbolp (car opgroup))
+			 (when (funcall opgroup-filter (car opgroup))
+			   (setq opgroup (cdr opgroup))
+			   t)
+		       t)
+		 (mapcan (lambda (op)
+			   (when (funcall op-filter op)
+			     (let ((res (funcall xlate op)))
+			       (if (listp res) res (list res)))))
+			 opgroup)))
+	     ops)
+     :test 'equal)))
+
+;; This inserts the bulk of the code.
+(require 'cc-mode)
+
+;; These are only required at compile time to get the sources for the
+;; language constants.  (The cc-fonts require and the font-lock
+;; related constants could additionally be put inside an
+;; (eval-after-load "font-lock" ...) but then some trickery is
+;; necessary to get them compiled.)
+(eval-when-compile
+  (let ((load-path
+	 (if (and (boundp 'byte-compile-dest-file)
+		  (stringp byte-compile-dest-file))
+	     (cons (file-name-directory byte-compile-dest-file) load-path)
+	   load-path)))
+    (load "cc-mode" nil t)
+    (load "cc-fonts" nil t)
+    (load "cc-langs" nil t)))
+
+(eval-and-compile
+  ;; Make our mode known to the language constant system.  Use Java
+  ;; mode as the fallback for the constants we don't change here.
+  ;; This needs to be done also at compile time since the language
+  ;; constants are evaluated then.
+  (c-add-language 'vala-mode 'java-mode))
+
+;; Java uses a series of regexes to change the font-lock for class
+;; references. The problem comes in because Java uses Pascal (leading
+;; space in names, SomeClass) for class and package names, but
+;; Camel-casing (initial lowercase, upper case in words,
+;; i.e. someVariable) for variables.
+;;(error (byte-compile-dest-file))
+;;(error (c-get-current-file))
+(c-lang-defconst c-opt-after-id-concat-key
+  vala (if (c-lang-const c-opt-identifier-concat-key)
+	   (c-lang-const c-symbol-start)))
+
+(c-lang-defconst c-basic-matchers-before
+  vala `(
+;;;; Font-lock the attributes by searching for the
+;;;; appropriate regex and marking it as TODO.
+	 ;;,`(,(concat "\\(" vala-attribute-regex "\\)")
+	 ;;   0 font-lock-function-name-face)	   
+
+	 ;; Put a warning face on the opener of unclosed strings that
+	 ;; can't span lines.  Later font
+	 ;; lock packages have a `font-lock-syntactic-face-function' for
+	 ;; this, but it doesn't give the control we want since any
+	 ;; fontification done inside the function will be
+	 ;; unconditionally overridden.
+	 ,(c-make-font-lock-search-function
+	   ;; Match a char before the string starter to make
+	   ;; `c-skip-comments-and-strings' work correctly.
+	   (concat ".\\(" c-string-limit-regexp "\\)")
+	   '((c-font-lock-invalid-string)))
+	   
+	 ;; Fontify keyword constants.
+	 ,@(when (c-lang-const c-constant-kwds)
+	     (let ((re (c-make-keywords-re nil
+			 (c-lang-const c-constant-kwds))))
+	       `((eval . (list ,(concat "\\<\\(" re "\\)\\>")
+			       1 c-constant-face-name)))))
+	   
+	 ;; Fontify all keywords except the primitive types.
+	 ,`(,(concat "\\<" (c-lang-const c-regular-keywords-regexp))
+	    1 font-lock-keyword-face)
+
+	 ;; Fontify leading identifiers in fully
+	 ;; qualified names like "Foo.Bar".
+	 ,@(when (c-lang-const c-opt-identifier-concat-key)
+	     `((,(byte-compile
+		  `(lambda (limit)
+		     (while (re-search-forward
+			     ,(concat "\\(\\<" ; 1
+				      "\\(" (c-lang-const c-symbol-key)
+				      "\\)" ; 2
+				      "[ \t\n\r\f\v]*"
+				      (c-lang-const
+				       c-opt-identifier-concat-key)
+				      "[ \t\n\r\f\v]*"
+				      "\\)"
+				      "\\("
+				      (c-lang-const
+				       c-opt-after-id-concat-key)
+				      "\\)")
+			     limit t)
+		       (unless (progn
+				 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
+				 (c-skip-comments-and-strings limit))
+			 (or (get-text-property (match-beginning 2) 'face)
+			     (c-put-font-lock-face (match-beginning 2)
+						   (match-end 2)
+						   c-reference-face-name))
+			 (goto-char (match-end 1)))))))))
+	 ))
+
+;; Vala does not allow a leading qualifier operator. It also doesn't
+;; allow the ".*" construct of Java. So, we redo this regex without
+;; the "\\|\\*" regex.
+(c-lang-defconst c-identifier-key
+  vala (concat "\\(" (c-lang-const c-symbol-key) "\\)" ; 1
+	       (concat "\\("
+		       "[ \t\n\r\f\v]*"
+		       (c-lang-const c-opt-identifier-concat-key)
+		       "[ \t\n\r\f\v]*"
+		       (concat "\\("
+			       "\\(" (c-lang-const c-symbol-key) "\\)"
+			       "\\)")
+		       "\\)*")))
+
+;; Vala has a few rules that are slightly different than Java for
+;; operators. This also removed the Java's "super" and replaces it
+;; with the Vala's "base".
+(c-lang-defconst c-operators
+  vala `((prefix "base")))
+
+;; Vala directives ?
+;; (c-lang-defconst c-opt-cpp-prefix
+;;   csharp "^\\s *#.*")
+
+
+;; Vala uses the following assignment operators
+(c-lang-defconst c-assignment-operators
+  vala '("=" "*=" "/=" "%=" "+=" "-=" ">>=" "<<="
+	 "&=" "^=" "|=" "++" "--"))
+
+;; This defines the primative types for Vala
+(c-lang-defconst c-primitive-type-kwds
+  vala '("void" "char" "int" "float" "double" "string"))
+
+;; The keywords that define that the following is a type, such as a
+;; class definition.
+(c-lang-defconst c-type-prefix-kwds
+  vala '("class" "interface" "struct" "enum" "signal"))
+
+;; Type modifier keywords. They appear anywhere in types, but modifiy
+;; instead create one.
+(c-lang-defconst c-type-modifier-kwds
+  vala '("const"))
+
+;; Structures that are similiar to classes.
+(c-lang-defconst c-class-decl-kwds
+  vala '("class" "interface"))
+
+;; The various modifiers used for class and method descriptions.
+(c-lang-defconst c-modifier-kwds
+  vala '("public" "partial" "private" "const" "abstract"
+	 "protected" "ref" "in" "out" "static" "virtual"
+	 "override" "params" "internal" "weak" "owned"
+	 "unowned"))
+
+;; We don't use the protection level stuff because it breaks the
+;; method indenting. Not sure why, though.
+(c-lang-defconst c-protection-kwds
+  vala nil)
+
+;; Define the keywords that can have something following after them.
+(c-lang-defconst c-type-list-kwds
+  vala '("struct" "class" "interface" "is" "as"
+	 "delegate" "event" "set" "get" "add" "remove"
+	 "callback" "signal" "var" "default"))
+
+;; This allows the classes after the : in the class declartion to be
+;; fontified. 
+(c-lang-defconst c-typeless-decl-kwds
+  vala '(":"))
+
+;; Sets up the enum to handle the list properly
+(c-lang-defconst c-brace-list-decl-kwds
+  vala '("enum" "errordomain"))
+
+;; We need to remove Java's package keyword
+(c-lang-defconst c-ref-list-kwds
+  vala '("using" "namespace" "construct"))
+
+;; Follow-on blocks that don't require a brace
+(c-lang-defconst c-block-stmt-2-kwds
+  vala '("for" "if" "switch" "while" "catch" "foreach" "lock"))
+
+;; Statements that break out of braces
+(c-lang-defconst c-simple-stmt-kwds
+  vala '("return" "continue" "break" "throw"))
+
+;; Statements that allow a label
+;; TODO?
+(c-lang-defconst c-before-label-kwds
+  vala nil)
+
+;; Constant keywords
+(c-lang-defconst c-constant-kwds
+  vala '("true" "false" "null"))
+
+;; Keywords that start "primary expressions."
+(c-lang-defconst c-primary-expr-kwds
+  vala '("this" "base"))
+
+;; We need to treat namespace as an outer block to class indenting
+;; works properly.
+(c-lang-defconst c-other-block-decl-kwds
+  vala '("namespace"))
+
+;; We need to include the "in" for the foreach
+(c-lang-defconst c-other-kwds
+  vala '("in" "sizeof" "typeof"))
+
+(require 'cc-awk)
+
+(c-lang-defconst c-at-vsemi-p-fn
+  vala 'c-awk-at-vsemi-p)
+
+
+(defcustom vala-font-lock-extra-types nil
+  "*List of extra types (aside from the type keywords) to recognize in Vala mode.
+Each list item should be a regexp matching a single identifier.")
+
+(defconst vala-font-lock-keywords-1 (c-lang-const c-matchers-1 vala)
+  "Minimal highlighting for Vala mode.")
+
+(defconst vala-font-lock-keywords-2 (c-lang-const c-matchers-2 vala)
+  "Fast normal highlighting for Vala mode.")
+
+(defconst vala-font-lock-keywords-3 (c-lang-const c-matchers-3 vala)
+  "Accurate normal highlighting for Vala mode.")
+
+(defvar vala-font-lock-keywords vala-font-lock-keywords-3
+  "Default expressions to highlight in Vala mode.")
+
+(defvar vala-mode-syntax-table
+  nil
+  "Syntax table used in vala-mode buffers.")
+(or vala-mode-syntax-table
+    (setq vala-mode-syntax-table
+	  (funcall (c-lang-const c-make-mode-syntax-table vala))))
+
+(defvar vala-mode-abbrev-table nil
+  "Abbreviation table used in vala-mode buffers.")
+(c-define-abbrev-table 'vala-mode-abbrev-table
+  ;; Keywords that if they occur first on a line
+  ;; might alter the syntactic context, and which
+  ;; therefore should trig reindentation when
+  ;; they are completed.
+  '(("else" "else" c-electric-continued-statement 0)
+    ("while" "while" c-electric-continued-statement 0)
+    ("catch" "catch" c-electric-continued-statement 0)
+    ("finally" "finally" c-electric-continued-statement 0)))
+
+(defvar vala-mode-map (let ((map (c-make-inherited-keymap)))
+			;; Add bindings which are only useful for Vala
+			map)
+  "Keymap used in vala-mode buffers.")
+
+;;(easy-menu-define vala-menu vala-mode-map "Vala Mode Commands"
+;;		  ;; Can use `vala' as the language for `c-mode-menu'
+;;		  ;; since its definition covers any language.  In
+;;		  ;; this case the language is used to adapt to the
+;;		  ;; nonexistence of a cpp pass and thus removing some
+;;		  ;; irrelevant menu alternatives.
+;;		  (cons "Vala" (c-lang-const c-mode-menu vala)))
+
+;;; Autoload mode trigger
+(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.vala$" . vala-mode))
+(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.vapi$" . vala-mode))
+
+;; Custom variables
+(defcustom vala-mode-hook nil
+  "*Hook called by `vala-mode'."
+  :type 'hook
+  :group 'c)
+
+;;; The entry point into the mode
+;;;###autoload
+(defun vala-mode ()
+  "Major mode for editing Vala code.
+This is a simple example of a separate mode derived from CC Mode
+to support a language with syntax similar to
+C#/C/C++/ObjC/Java/IDL/Pike.
+
+The hook `c-mode-common-hook' is run with no args at mode
+initialization, then `vala-mode-hook'.
+
+Key bindings:
+\\{vala-mode-map}"
+  (interactive)
+  (kill-all-local-variables)
+  (c-initialize-cc-mode t)
+  (set-syntax-table vala-mode-syntax-table)
+  (setq major-mode 'vala-mode
+	mode-name "Vala"
+	local-abbrev-table vala-mode-abbrev-table
+	abbrev-mode t)
+  (use-local-map c-mode-map)
+  ;; `c-init-language-vars' is a macro that is expanded at compile
+  ;; time to a large `setq' with all the language variables and their
+  ;; customized values for our language.
+  (c-init-language-vars vala-mode)
+  ;; `c-common-init' initializes most of the components of a CC Mode
+  ;; buffer, including setup of the mode menu, font-lock, etc.
+  ;; There's also a lower level routine `c-basic-common-init' that
+  ;; only makes the necessary initialization to get the syntactic
+  ;; analysis and similar things working.
+  (c-common-init 'vala-mode)
+  ;;(easy-menu-add vala-menu)
+  (c-set-style "linux")
+  (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
+  (setq c-basic-offset 4)
+  (setq tab-width 4)
+  (c-toggle-auto-newline -1)
+  (c-toggle-hungry-state -1)
+  (run-hooks 'c-mode-common-hook)
+  (run-hooks 'vala-mode-hook)
+  (c-update-modeline))
+
+(provide 'vala-mode)
+
+;;; vala-mode.el ends here
diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 3ac8d22..e567cf2 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -235,4 +235,5 @@
                   (setq protocopy-end (point))
                   (kill-ring-save protocopy-begin protocopy-end)))
 
+(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.vala\\'" . vala-mode))
 (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.erl\\'" . erlang-mode))