Re: Multiple Major Modes

[Richard Riley]

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?

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| (require 'html-php)
| (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.php\\'" . html-php-mode)) 
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