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Re: Better syntax highlighting
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Aidan Gauland |
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Re: Better syntax highlighting |
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Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:22:07 +1200 |
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Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote:
> 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.
I stumbled upon this page...
<http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MultipleModes>
...but I've never tried anything listed there, because I don't suffer from
multiple-personality disorder. ;)
Hope this helps,
Aidan
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