From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: nXML mode maintenance and enhancement Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 12:12:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87603e4lhz.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527091863 23834 195.159.176.226 (23 May 2018 16:11:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 16:11:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 18:10:58 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLWLq-00066R-Hp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 18:10:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLWNx-0000jY-N4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 12:13:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLWNp-0000jN-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 12:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLWNm-0000hP-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 12:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40466 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLWNl-0000h6-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 12:12:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLWLc-0005r6-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 18:10:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:llllqeSlyV2CiBNkyRda22wFJSU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225611 Archived-At: > 1. Make indentation in nXML mode compatible with that in the official > SGML mode, and in the unofficial PSGML mode; the latter indentation > styles are arguably more natural, and followed by projects like the > FreeBSD Documentation Project. I had stumbled across this problem > recently, as in > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2018-05/msg00009.html Yes, in general sharing more code between those modes would be great. nXML's indentation algorithm is indeed one of its main weaknesses in my experience. > 2. Addition of features in PSGML mode, e.g, > 3. Support for XInclude. > 4. Provision of a facility similar to RefTeX for manipulating > cross-references in a modular document. Yes, please! > 5. Analogues of `LaTeX-fill-region' and friends from AUCTeX. Not sure what this would do which the default fill-region wouldn't do (once the indentation is improved)? If I may add a personal wish: make it a bit more permissive with respect to details of the header (or better help the user fix those headers) so it's easier to use it for HTML5. Stefan