From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Shug Boabby" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode? Date: 5 Oct 2005 09:30:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1128529855.713827.276200@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1127748347.672970.236510@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87achqhtyp.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <1128506977.467871.151690@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128530305 18132 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2005 16:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 18:38:22 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENCEr-0007gW-AE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:35:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENCEq-0003HT-CP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:35:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.195.21.216 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1128529860 30496 127.0.0.1 (5 Oct 2005 16:31:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:31:00 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.195.21.216; posting-account=jQz-EQ0AAABiniXWq8YyRVQ60t_LIYwt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134374 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29949 Archived-At: hi kevin, that doesn't work... you see, html-mode still overrides it. searching for "nxml for html" on the emacs wiki http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/NxmlMode i found that you need to add the line: (setq xml-based-modes (cons 'nxml-mode xml-based-modes)) to .emacs. however, even with that, i get the warning on start-up: An error has occurred while loading `/Users/shug/.emacs': Symbol's value as variable is void: xml-based-modes xml-mode is still used for XML files, html-mode still for xhtml files. it is too much hassle getting nxml-mode set up, so i have decided to return to using the standard html-mode, which seems to be getting better.