Better syntax highlighting

[Giuseppe Fuggiano]

Hi there,

I'm learning Emacs for programming tasks and I think it's very powerful.

But, the first thing I saw migrating from Vim is that Emacs handles 
syntax highlighting differently, often messing up if a given source 
contains multiple languages (like a PHP file).  I tried a plugin named 
nxhtml, but it seems heavy and makes Emacs' startup quite slow.  I don't 
want to start an editor war here, just point out that Emacs seems so 
powerful, but doesn't have a smart syntax highlighting available out of 
the box.

I'm sure there's a solution to this. That's why I'm posting.

Regards

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Giuseppe Fuggiano