multi-web-mode
Multiple major mode support for web editing in Emacs.
Info
- Author: Fabián Ezequiel Gallina
- Contact: fgallina at gnu dot org
- Project homepage: http://github.com/fgallina/multi-web-mode
- My Blog: http://www.from-the-cloud.com
Donations welcome!
Introduction
Multi Web Mode is a minor mode which makes web editing in Emacs much easier.
Basically it selects the appropriate major mode automatically when you move the point and calculates the correct indentation of chunks according to the indentation of the most relevant major mode.
Currently it is focused to work on buffers which contain html, css,
javascript and/or php, but adding other modes is really simple: you
just need to add your own mode to the mweb-tags. You can do that by
using M-x customize-group RET multi-web-mode and looking for the
mweb-tags variable.
All third packages were removed from the project repo (they were included with mweb previously), mainly because it is difficult to track new versions for everything and because it favored the user laziness to check the basic configuration :).
The last multi-web-mode release which contained all packages was 0.2.1. It is still available from here:
Why?
At the time I created multi-web-mode I had tried several of the existing stuff that was available, but then I settled with MuMaMo (from the nXhtml package) which I found pretty cool; although I was having some problems with it, like: slow parsing, erroneus indentation and hangs.
When I tried to look at its code to solve some of this stuff I found it really difficult for me to follow. That convinced me to try to write the simplest working version of a package that does multiple major mode support, therefore multi-web-mode was born.
This was a long time ago, and I'm not sure how other packages progressed but I think the key feature of multi-web-mode is the simplicity with which detects the current chunk and indentation (although the code it's not pretty, it was one of my first Emacs Lisp packages and never got cleaned up properly :-). Another thing I consider a feature is that multi-web-mode only focuses on 3 things: detecting the chunk, activating the proper major mode and calculating the indentation for it. It lets unmodified major and minor modes to do its job without stepping in the middle.
Requirements
You don't need any special libraries to run this package. Just the ones you want to integrate to it.
Regarding the version of Emacs, this package was tested successfully with >= 23.0.60.
Installation
To install Multi Web Mode you'll need to do something like this in your .emacs:
(require 'multi-web-mode)
(setq mweb-default-major-mode 'html-mode)
(setq mweb-tags '((php-mode "<\\?php\\|<\\? \\|<\\?=" "\\?>")
(js-mode "<script +\\(type=\"text/javascript\"\\|language=\"javascript\"\\)[^>]*>" "</script>")
(css-mode "<style +type=\"text/css\"[^>]*>" "</style>")))
(setq mweb-filename-extensions '("php" "htm" "html" "ctp" "phtml" "php4" "php5"))
(multi-web-global-mode 1)Usage
Multi Web Mode binds the following keystrokes:
M-<f11>: Prompts the user to override the default major mode.M-<f12>: Prompts the user to override the calculated extra indentation. Useful when the automatic calculation is not good enough.
Bug Reports
If you find a bug please report in the github tracker or sending an email to the address listed at the top of the file.
License
multi-web-mode.el is free software under the GPL v3, see LICENSE file for details.