Re: How to edit "mixed" (e.g. HTML/JavaScript) files?

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

David Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:48:27 +0100 Hadron wrote:
> 
>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> kj wrote:
>>>> It often happens that a single file must contain code corresponding
>>>> to two different syntaxes.  For example, an HTML file with embedded
>>>> JavaScript or CSS.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to *locally* override the mode of a file and replace
>>>> it with a different mode?
>>>>
>>>> If not, is there a good way to deal with such situations (other
>>>> than avoiding them altogether)?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> kj
>>> It depends on whom you ask ;-)
>>>
>>> You may try nxhtml-part-mode in nXhtml (you need Emacs 22 beta):
>>>
>>>   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/nXhtml/doc/nxhtml.html
>>>
>>> Or you may try this
>>>
>>>   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MultipleModes
>>>
>>>
>> Has anyone recently got this multiplemodes working? The wiki reads like
>> a slaughter house!
> 
> Just my experience:  you won't get it to work.  Everything available
> are more or less dirty hacks.
> 
> The most promising approach (IMHO) is multi-mode.el (but it's a more
> general solution, you have to do some hacking yourself to get it
> work for your special mode).
> 
> Don't spend to much time fiddling with the different modes.  Emacs
> isn't ready yet to deal with this.
> 
> David


Did you try nXhtml above? It should work OTB. Drawbacks is that it 
requires the Emacs 22 beta. Maybe also in the beginning that it uses 
nxhtml-mode for XHTML.

nXhtml takes another approach to multiple modes. Since Emacs actually 
have no way to restrict a mode to only handle part of a buffer (not even 
in Emacs 22) it instead switches mode. See the home page for more info.