From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Specifying mode in file variables trouble Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:29:53 +0200 Message-ID: <48D8B711.6000201@gmail.com> References: <48D44761.6000809@gmail.com> <87ljxny6n8.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <48D44C79.9020004@gmail.com> <48D63F30.8060102@gmail.com> <48D6E8FB.4070108@gmail.com> <48D79A25.7050000@gmail.com> <48D7AB25.4090603@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222162230 9532 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2008 09:30:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:30:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 23 11:31:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ki4Er-0007qG-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ki4Do-0002rf-U1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ki4Dh-0002pu-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ki4De-0002mp-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39881 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ki4Dd-0002mR-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:59346) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ki4DY-00058d-Mt; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:30:00 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:61825 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Ki4DX-0004AT-3I; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:29:59 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080922-0, 2008-09-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Ki4DX-0004AT-3I. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1Ki4DX-0004AT-3I 17f37b3ed25598eec8b182a5d0a53ca2 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104053 Archived-At: Richard M. Stallman wrote: > For each of them I have one with html-mode as main mode and one with > nxhtml-mode as main mode. > > Why is it necessary to have both? There are currently to different major modes for handling XHTML files in Emacs: html-mode: This is based on sgml-mode. This is a "normal" major mode where everything works ok with MuMaMo. nxml-mode: This is James Clark's nXml mode which has DTD based validation and completion for XML files. (DTD=Document Type Definition, this describes what XML tags and attributes are allowed and where etc.) nxhtml-mode is based on nxml-mode. I have added some more convenient completion functions for XHTML files there. This is not part of Emacs. I distribute it in the nXhtml package together with MuMaMo. There are still some problems with the nxml-mode parser and multi major modes. Most of the time it works well, but it is not perfect. So there are two reasons: - html-mode is included in Emacs, but nxhtml-mode is not. - html-mode works ok with multi major modes, while there are some minor (from a users perspective) glitches with how nxhtml-mode works with multi major modes.