From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Multiple Major Modes Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:28:04 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <25d42153-4e90-4491-b0a0-7efff5215f35@k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <87bpjmhrbh.fsf@liv.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257172152 5746 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2009 14:29:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:29:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 02 15:29:00 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 1N4xtw-0006zW-ER for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:28:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4xtv-0006ZN-VK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:28:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4xtY-0006ZA-2A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:28:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4xtT-0006YP-2s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:28:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60490 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4xtS-0006YM-TK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:28:26 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51532) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4xtS-0003S4-Az for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:28:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N4xtK-0006gP-12 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:28:18 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:28:18 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:28:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:69397 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Richard Riley wrote: >> Dave Love writes: >> >>> Nordlöw writes: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> I think you want more flexibility for delimiting mode chunks in general. >>> >>> implements >>> roughly what we intended by the Emacs TODO item on the topic many years >>> ago (if it's still there). >>> >>> I'm rather baffled by this nxhtml thing referred to, and its complexity. >>> It claims to be trying to solve a problem that the indirect buffer >>> approach doesn't have.  Can someone explain why? >>> >>> Doing this sort of thing properly really needs support from Emacs, which >>> was originally meant to be added as necessary. >>> >> >> I just tried multi-mode. Very fast and clean. Can it also fontify in the >> php sections or am I missing something? > > Yes, it does. (It is just a bug at startup of it, press some key.) > Yes, it also depends if the first line of the php is on the same line as the