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

[Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com>]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I would strongly advise anyone trying emacs CVS if they use
debian/ubuntu - you have to really know what you are doing to get it
installed. Despite advice from ##emacs on irc, I never got it working -
the cvs version clashes with the debian install packages.

Having said that I use emacs-snapshot from synaptic and I got
htmlmodedelux working. The jury is out on whether its better than c-mode
for php and html-helper-mode, but it works.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HtmlModeDeluxe