On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I was wondering what’s the preferred approach to run a major mode without
> triggering any if its hooks. I looked at the Elisp manual, but didn’t find
> anything on the subject. Google searches yield nothing useful as well.
> (here’s an example that lead to my question - imagine you’re enabling some
> major mode in a temp buffer just to get proper font-locking for a string
> you inserted in the temp buffer, but you wouldn’t want to enable
> whitespace-mode as well, which might add font-locking of it’s own.
> Obviously you can disable whitespace-mode directly, but there has to be
> some more generic solution)
>
> Please look at the code in nXhtml for multiple major modes.