Re: [prettify-symbols-mode] Two consecutive matches don't work?

[Stefan Monnier]

>   1. nxml-mode: It feels wrong that <a>&lt is considered a symbol.  And
>      that the closing ; isn't part of the symbol &lt; seems also not
>      correct.  And why do < and > have symbol syntax.  Wouldn't
>      open/close paren be more appropriate?

It all depends if your XML is mostly made of "tags" or mostly made of
text.  IIRC the syntax table used in XML/SGML/HTML buffers is usually
a variant of the text-mode syntax table (and then another syntax-table
is used while parsing the actual *ML structure).


        Stefan