Re: PSGML questions

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Peter Westlake wrote:

> I am trying to use PSGML 1.3.1 with Emacs 21.3, and there is a
> conflict between PSGML and sgml-mode.el, because they both define
> sgml-mode. I can unload-feature the original sgml-mode and then load
> psgml, but that only works interactively. For some reason it doesn't
> work in .emacs, perhaps because the original sgml-mode has already
> been loaded by then to handle some XML files opened by Emacs desktop.
> 
> Taking sgml-mode.el out of the Emacs directory works up to a point,
> but gives an error, probably because the desktop tries to load it.
> To make this work I would need to remove all mention of sgml-mode.el
> from the Emacs lisp directory. This would be bad because I would have
> to do it all again next time I upgrade.
> 
> Alternatively, I could rename everything in PSGML (to psgml-mode,
> etc). auto-mode-alist associates .sgml and .xml with sgml-mode, but
> putting new entries at the beginning will override that. The question
> is whether any other packages call sgml-mode explicitly. Several of
> the standard ones refer to it (flyspell, tildify, whitespace, and
> others) but don't actually call it. Does anyone know of any packages
> that do?

This is a long-standing problem:


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Kevin Rodgers