transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[Shug Boabby]

has anyone else noticed that 'transient-mark-mode' no longer highlights
selected areas in html-mode? seems ok in other modes, such as elisp and
text only.

i'm actually quite sick of the out of the box html-mode that comes with
Emacs... can anyone recommend a better one? one that will allow
indentation. optimally being able to detect javascript/php and change
accordingly (in the same document) but i remember trying to set that up
before and it never worked.

Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[Shug Boabby]

hmm, i think flyspell-mode may be causing this... disabling flyspell
things work again.

Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[Edward O'Connor]

> i'm actually quite sick of the out of the box html-mode that comes with
> Emacs... can anyone recommend a better one?

nxml-mode is really quite awesome.


Ted

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Edward O'Connor
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Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[Stefan Monnier]

> i'm actually quite sick of the out of the box html-mode that comes with
> Emacs... can anyone recommend a better one? one that will allow
> indentation. 

For XML, there's nxml, for HTML there's psgml.
But note that under Emacs-CVS (which you seem to be using) the builtin
html-mode does do indentation.  If the indentation doesn't work well for
you, please report it as a bug.


        Stefan

Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[Shug Boabby]

hmm, yeah latest CVS emacs is indeed much better at this (i was using a
slightly outdated one).

but i also like nXML mode. the problem is that no mater what i do to
auto-load-alist to set xml files to open in nxml-mode... they still
open in xml-mode. how can i override that?

Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[LENNART BORGMAN]

From: Shug Boabby <Shug.Boabby@gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2005 12:09 pm
Subject: Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better	html-mode?

> hmm, yeah latest CVS emacs is indeed much better at this (i was 
> using a
> slightly outdated one).
> 
> but i also like nXML mode. the problem is that no mater what i do to
> auto-load-alist to set xml files to open in nxml-mode... they still
> open in xml-mode. how can i override that?

Go to http://www.emacswiki.org/ and search for nxml for html. I have given an explanation of what to do there.

Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Shug Boabby wrote:
 > but i also like nXML mode. the problem is that no mater what i do to
 > auto-load-alist to set xml files to open in nxml-mode... they still
 > open in xml-mode. how can i override that?

You don't say what you did, but the README file distributed with
nxml-mode says:

/--------
| To get things automatically loaded each time you start Emacs, add
|
|   (load "~/nxml-mode-200YMMDD/rng-auto.el")
|
| to your .emacs, where ~/nxml-mode-200YMMDD is the directory containing
| the .elc files.  Note that rng-auto.el does not load all of the
| nxml-mode code; it merely sets things up so that all the features of
| nxml-mode will be autoloaded properly.  You should not try to autoload
| rng-auto.el itself.
|
| To use nxml-mode automatically for files with an extension of xml,
| xsl, rng or xhtml, add
|
|   (setq auto-mode-alist
|         (cons '("\\.\\(xml\\|xsl\\|rng\\|xhtml\\)\\'" . nxml-mode)
| 	      auto-mode-alist))
|
| to your .emacs.
\--------

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[Shug Boabby]

hi kevin,

that doesn't work... you see, html-mode still overrides it. searching
for "nxml for html" on the emacs wiki
  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/NxmlMode
i found that you need to add the line:
  (setq xml-based-modes (cons 'nxml-mode xml-based-modes))
to .emacs.

however, even with that, i get the warning on start-up:
 An error has occurred while loading `/Users/shug/.emacs':
 Symbol's value as variable is void: xml-based-modes
xml-mode is still used for XML files, html-mode still for xhtml files.

it is too much hassle getting nxml-mode set up, so i have decided to
return to using the standard html-mode, which seems to be getting
better.

Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[Edward O'Connor]

Shug Boabby wrote:

> the problem is that no mater what i do to auto-load-alist to set xml
> files to open in nxml-mode... they still open in xml-mode. how can i
> override that?

Here's what I do to set up nxml mode:

(when (load "rng-auto" t)
  (defalias 'html-mode 'nxml-mode)
  (defalias 'xml-mode 'nxml-mode))


Ted

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Edward O'Connor
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Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

Re: transient-mark-mode broken in CVS and is there a better html-mode?

[Johan Bockgård]

"Shug Boabby" <Shug.Boabby@gmail.com> writes:

> hmm, yeah latest CVS emacs is indeed much better at this (i was
> using a slightly outdated one).
>
> but i also like nXML mode. the problem is that no mater what i do to
> auto-load-alist to set xml files to open in nxml-mode

`auto-mode-alist' is overridden by `magic-mode-alist' (in CVS Emacs).

-- 
Johan Bockgård