Re: Major and minor modes

[tomas]

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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:19:01AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

[...]

> > Then I have this question. One major mode is
> > suitable for a type of data. Everything is text but
> > it is formatted differently. Usually in the same
> > buffer you have several sections with different
> > types [...]

> There are solutions to deal with that but those are
> exceptions [...]
 
This is a well-known problem for those poor souls dealing
with "things Web", where you have nested languages (CSS
and Javascript in HTML, HTML in PHP and things). Thus,
several approaches to the problem of "multiple major modes"
have developed. But yes, that's a point where we might
need a more "fundamental" solution.

See https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultipleModes

For another, somewhat refreshing, but different approach
(embedding snippets of code in many languages in some text,
and getting the results of executing those snippets back
into the text, the whole literate programming kaboodle),
start, e.g. here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/

Careful! this one has rabbit-hole quality ;-)

Cheers
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