Re: multiple languages in one file, nxhtml-mode...

[Richard Riley]

Marko Myllymaki <firstname.lastname@iki.fi> writes:

> I'm trying to get nxhtml-mode to work - it would really help editing
> documents with many different code blocks...  I need at least correct
> indenting of code lines, line wrap and syntax hilighting say with php,
> xhtml, css, javascript, xml... automatic validation when editing is not
> so important...
>
> If someone could suggest "simpler mode" to achieve these goals, I would
> really appreciate that.
>
> Previously I used only PHP-mode (and others for other languages) but it
> does not work with multiple source code blocks.
>
> Problems with nxhtml-mode:
> I load a file called something.php which has php-blocks <? ?> and xhtml
> and possibly javascript... When I scroll it, emacs mode line changes the
> context (PHP/nxhtml - nXhtml/nxhtml) quite nicely.
>
> But then... when editing
>
> Problems: lots of lisp or other errors interrupt editing and drive me
> crazy, like:
>
> "Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
>    rng-after-change-function(384 385 0)
>    self-insert-command(1)
>    newline(nil)
>    call-interactively(newline nil nil)"
>
> "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size"
>
> What are these?
>
> Font lock mode does usually not work - syntax hilighting does not always
> change when changing code blocks...
>
> My environment:
> Debian Linux
> GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12) of
> 2009-02-22 on elegiac, modified by Debian
> (emacs snapshot... but v22 did not work either)
> nXhtml mode version 1.75
> nXML mode version 20041004

I had the same and reported them to Lennart. This happened also with
emacs -Q and then manually loading nxhtml.

Interestingly the errors were a LOT worse with emacs-snapshot than from
cvs emacs 23. But presently the current nxhtml is unusable for me
unfortunately - Lennart is looking into it.


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