[MMM] Re: One-way conversation?

[Alan S. <at...@ac...>]

Christian Millour <chr...@cl...> writes:

> - global indent doesn't seem to work at all.

This will not be too easy to fix.  We would have to write a separate
mmm-indent-region which understands mmm regions, and calls the
appropriate function in each part.  That doesn't sound too hard, I
guess, but I don't have time to do it.

> - nested highlighting would be much appreciated (for java <% .. %> 
>   expressions imbedded in javascipt)

The infrastructure is there to do that right now.  It works in the
CWeb submode, for instance.  I don't know how hard that would be to
turn on... I'll have to play with it (since one reason I don't have
time to work on anything is I'm busy writing JSPs).

> - then there's the matter of mixing structural constructs between java and
>   javascript or html, such as 
[...]
>   It would be sooo nice if those could be automatically indented in a 
>   sensible way... That however might be out of scope of mmm, I don't 
>   know. 

I think the key to this will be similar to what Joe is doing with
noweb: have an intelligent mode which uses mmm-mode for regions,
rather than just having mmm-mode manage things.  After all, mmm-mode
generally can't know how you want things indented between java, js
and html, but a JSP-mode could.

> I know that I should probably peruse the archive of the mailing list but 
> I find the interface awkward and time consuming. Is there a way to download
> it globally so that I can grep through it locally ?

Not that I know of.

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