Re: Multiple Major Modes

[Richard Riley]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dave Love <fx@domain.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> 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.
>>>>
>>>> <URL:http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el> 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
> <?php tag or not.
>
> flyspell is causing me some grief with it too and am trying to narrow
> down why.
>

With regards to the fontification (and multi-mode) in general it doesn't
work too well in conjunction with saveplace.el : if the cursor is
located inside a php block when you open the file then moving outside of
the block does not trigger xhtml mode again.