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 16:11:32 +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 1257174838 15850 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2009 15:13:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:13:58 +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 16:13:46 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 1N4ybE-0002vv-J0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:13:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34199 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4ybD-0002Rn-W2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:13:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4yZt-0001dR-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:12:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4yZo-0001Y0-O1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50371 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4yZo-0001Xl-1m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40837) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4yZn-0002C2-NW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:12:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N4yZX-00024A-Sa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:11:55 +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 16:11:55 +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 16:11:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 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:69400 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > 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? > > ,---- > | (require 'html-php) > | (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.php\\'" . html-php-mode)) What php-mode is recommended for use with multi-mode? The one I had adds php-mode to the front of the auto-mode-alist for pho'like extensions meaning all subsequent php file opens put them into php-mode and not html-php-mode.