Re: web-mode.el

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

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Bois Francois-Xavier <fxbois@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It would be very nice if those functions for PHP would be available as
>> a major mode. Then it could immediately be used in a lot of other
>> combinations with nXhtml/MuMaMo.
>>
>> I guess you have written the parsing functions so that they do not
>> cross the chunk boundaries. Or, do I misunderstand that? If you have
>> done that then perhaps a major mode for PHP could use that and make it
>> available in some way to multi major modes frameworks?
>
> But I think you would be disappointed by the few cases I handle for
> PHP. I have written a mode for templates. In an HTML template I don't
> expect people to declare function, declare classes, use exceptions
> etc. All those cases are not properly handled by my mode. I don'
> really "parse" PHP code ... it is more rules like ... "if the previous
> line ends with { then I indent". By contrast, the parsing is much
> stronger/powerful for HTML.

Thanks Bois, I see. This kind of limitations is one of the reasons I
think a general multi mode framework should be used. The the full
power of the Emacs' major modes can be used. (But see my previous
messages for the current status of this.)