From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joseph Brenner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Multiple Major Modes Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:28:44 -0700 Message-ID: <87fx918sr7.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> References: <25d42153-4e90-4491-b0a0-7efff5215f35@k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256874055 30603 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2009 03:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 30 04:40:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3iM2-0004eR-5b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3iM1-00043R-ID for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:40:45 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.rawbandwidth!news.posted.rawbandwidth.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:28:04 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7wZ75Gs+WIus7VWtj7mxx0hYAvE= Original-Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.144.208.84 Original-X-Trace: sv3-WlDyNn2HnoW3vsBIMqjFV8e7max9pTQDJKM8sP+SA1ddVn8vRHyq19vCcafdL0ougJ4hM5JOTE57rO7!/1Zb428HcAfEAER2F1cMLxWpAWNgKEdHX5zTwBIpVM5gaNfPwHojuJWgG6vqnGEMkoANZr8xCCU= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174264 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:69347 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > Joost Kremers wrote: >> Nordlöw wrote: >>> Does anyone though of an extension the enables a major-mode to exist >>> only within a part of buffer along with another major-mode. Part is >>> preferrably delimited by some magic strings. >> >> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultipleModes > > Pascal and Bastien, you recommended mmm-mode that is one of the > alternatives on that list. I have for a long time wondered if it works > with Emacs 22/23. Are you using it? I use mmm-mode sometimes. It works pretty well for Mason files (perl code embedded in html-like coding), which is what it was originally designed for. I believe it's the oldest and probably most mature multi-mode package. > Are there any features in it that you believe are missing in mumamo? I don't know anything about mumamo: mmm-mode works well enough that I've never seen any need to try any of the other ways.