Re: Emacs 23 does not load nxml but sgml-mode for .xml files?

[Xah Lee]

Thanks Lennart.

I filed a bug report.

 Xah

On Aug 16, 5:49 pm, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Xah Lee<xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > on my Windows emacs, when i open a xml file, seems the default mode
> > loaded is sgml-mode, not nxml?
>
> > is this a bug or intentional?
>
> It is one of those unintentional problems that has not got the
> official bug status ;-)
>
> I wrote majmodpri.el (part of nXhtml) to take care of this kind of
> problem and suggested that something like it should be included in
> Emacs. There has not been any positive response to it yet.
>
> The reason I wrote it was that this problem is much more prominent
> when there are multi major modes as an alternative too. (For an xhtml
> file for example you could use html-mode, nxml-mode, html-mumamo-mode,
> nxhtml-mumamo-mode etc.)
>
>
>
> > GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) of 2009-06-30 on
> > LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
>
> > Reproducible with emacs -Q using FSF's official emacs for Windows
> > binary too.
>
> >  Xah
> > ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> > ☄