Re: wml-mode for (X)Emacs ?

[Fritz Zaucker <nospam@thanx>]

"Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@engelschall.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 1998, Alexander Graefe wrote:
>  
> > just a quick question: Has anybody written a wml-mode for (X)Emacs ?
> > The html-mode unfortunately doesn't know about eperl and the other
> > wml-goodies, and I don't know jack about lisp, so writing it myself
> > is out of the question (too busy understanding wml fully, thanks Ralf
> > for such a great tool !)
 
> Is such an Emacs wml-mode just syntax highlighting of WML-Tags or is
> it really more like tag expansion, etc?

I think syntax-highlighting would be what's needed. Why would one want
to expand wml-tags, a job wml itself is doing??? The idea of WML is
"abstraction" (for me at least) and the last thing I'd do is expand
the tags in the editor to HTML.

> If its pure tag highligthing it should be trivial as for Vim (just a
> few regex).

Trivial? Including handling embedded perl-code? 

Even the better perl-modes for Emacs don't handle all Perl-constructs
correctly. Which is not surprising, as only Perl understands Perl
correctly. Same as for TeX/LaTeX. Perhaps somebody cares to implement
Perl and TeX in Emacs-Lisp? Wouldn't that be some nice little summer
project for bored CS students?  ;-)

Fritz

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