Re: Disabling nxml-mode

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Thanks for the Emacs23 new features pages. It would have been a long
time before I found out about proced and global visual-line-mode on my own.

Two questions on matters your embedded links lead to:
1) Why is ergoemacs not gpl licensed?
2) For kui (keyboard user interface) I use keytweak, firemacs, and
xkeymacs on w32 desktop but on thinkpad I can't get Fn key to do duty as
a mod key even though xev shows it as rassigned by xmodmap. Since you
are an ergonomics maven, I was hoping you (or any-one here) might know
whether the bottom-row keys on a thinkpad could be swapped around and
re-arranged without resorting to kernel surgery a la Rick Van Rein's
Funkey patch:

http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/funkey/#modes

Thanks again, Xah, and, in advance, if you know anything about question 2.

Ed


Xah Lee wrote:
> the reason it nxml-mode is loaded when u call xml-mode is probably
> because there is a alias.
> 
> you can probably set it back by:
> 
> (defalias 'xml-mode 'sgml-xml-mode)
> 
> Peter wrote:
>  > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe]
> [PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$" . xml-mode) auto-mode-alist))
> 
> that seems to be pretty bad.
> 
> you probably want to use add-to-list instead of setq.
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.js\\'" . js2-mode))
> 
> also, the file suffix
> "\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$"
> seems quite wild. What is it?
> 
> nxml-mode is a new mode for xml, written by the xml expert James
> Clark, who is also the original author of sgml-mode (html-mode and xml-
> mode are parts of sgml-mode). nxml-mode features on-the-fly xml
> validation. It's 10k lines of elisp.
> 
> the following might provide helpful info:
> 
> 〈How to Install Emacs Packages〉
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_installing_packages.html
> 
> 〈New Features in Emacs 23〉
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs23_features.html
> 
>  Xah
> 
> On May 7, 3:45 pm, Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> wrote:
>> I just upgraded a machine to Ubuntu Natty, which installed Emacs 23.2,
>> which appears to open XML files in nxml-mode by default. My .emacs file says
>>
>>> (autoload 'xml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit XML files." t )
>>> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$" . xml-mode) auto-mode-alist))
>> which has been working fine for years. It looks as if Emacs 23.2 defines
>> xml-mode to point to nxml-mode, and this is somehow superseding my .emacs.
>>
>> Unfortunately I still need to use psgml's xml-mode for all my XML stuff.
>> Does anyone know how I disable Emacs' new behaviour?
>>
>> ///Peter