Re: PHP mode in Emacs?

[Lennart Borgman]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Well, major modes have basically two major areas of interest: key maps
> > and syntax highlighting.
> >     
>
> You forget a big one: indentation.
>   
nxml-mode also checks the document against the DTD as you type in your 
text. And I believe that it also does syntax highlighting in a different 
way than other modes. Here is the explanation form nxml-mode.el:

;; The font locking here is independent of font-lock.el.  We want to
;; do more sophisticated handling of changes and we want to use the
;; same xmltok rather than regexps for parsing so that we parse
;; consistently and correctly.