Re: Emacs vs. TextMate (not trying to start an editor war)

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Xah wrote:
> (of course emacs fans will tell you about several elisp code on the
> web there that does multi modes... but the sheer fact to shop around,
> install, get them to work is a pain and rather not trivial.
> for those interested, see http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MultipleModes
> )

Xah, did you ever try nXhtml? In that case what where you missing? Did 
you have to "shop around"?

> I think to have emacs work with today's web dev needs out of the box
> is one of the most important need for emacs.
> (see http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_of_elisp.html )
> 
> Even for working with pure static html pages, emacs's default html
> mode is quite lacking.
> The default html mode in emacs 22 (released in 2007), is at a level of
> ~1998's commercial html editors. (of course emacs has redeeming
> qualities, i.e. its elisp system and all, that keeps us still sticking
> with emacs)
> 
> Web development is my primary area of expertise. I have to work with
> html mixed with css, javascript, php, perl a lot. Fortunately, lacking
> proper syntax coloring isn't much problem. (after all, 99.99% web
> pages out there are so badly formed)