Re: Writing enriched text

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo@di.epfl.ch> writes:

> >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
> 
>   Alan> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:
>   >> Or, we need a way to dissect a buffer into areas each of which is
>   >> edited in a different mode.  OLE, anyone?
> 
>   Alan> We _definately_ need this.  This would make help writing javascript in
>   Alan> html, yacc, lex, web, and tons of other places.  If you figure out how
>   Alan> to do this....
> 
> This has been more or less done already though not exactly as you would
> expect: look for "indirect buffers" in Emacs 20.something and XEmacs 21.2

What would be ideal is if you could change the syntax table and keymaps in
an extent/text property region.  I know you can do this for keymaps, but I
don't think you can durrently to it for syntax tables.

Then instead of an indirect _buffer_, you would have a region of the buffer
that would in effect be in 'sgml-mode' or 'enriched-mode'.  But you would
still really want the bindings of 'message-mode' to be in effect, so this
points to using minor modes instead of mixing major ones... hmmmm :(

We just need really studly minor mode versions of sgml-mode and
enriched-mode that integrate really well with mail-mode or message-mode.

-Bill P.