Re: PSGML conflicts with sgml-mode (CVS Emacs)

On 7 apr 2005, at 02:44, D. D. Brierton wrote:

>> From the PROBLEMS file in CVS Emacs:
>
>         *** PSGML conflicts with sgml-mode.
>
>         PSGML package uses the same names of some variables (like
>         keymap) as built-in sgml-mode.el because it was created as a
>         replacement of that package.  The conflict will be shown if you
>         load sgml-mode.el before psgml.el.  E.g. this could happen if
>         you edit HTML page and then start to work with SGML or XML 
> file.
>         html-mode (from sgml-mode.el) is used for HTML file and loading
>         of psgml.el (for sgml-mode or xml-mode) will cause an error.
>
> At the moment I am working around this problem by manually removing
> sgml-mode.el and sgml-mode.elc
> from /usr/share/emacs/21.3.50/lisp/textmodes/, but clearly that is not
> an elegant solution. Can someone explain an elegant way to work around
> the above problem?

If you are using psgml for sgml and xml (with autoloads), it would seem 
that html-mode is the major problem. One solution (workaround really) 
is to replace html-mode with sgml-mode in auto-mode-alist. Another 
solution is to make a simple html-mode that uses sgml-mode.

I use something like:

(defun html-mode ()
   (interactive)
   (sgml-mode)
   (make-local-variable 'sgml-default-doctype-name)
   (setq	sgml-default-doctype-name    "HTML"
	sgml-always-quote-attributes t
	sgml-indent-step             2
	sgml-indent-data	     t
	sgml-minimize-attributes     nil
	sgml-omittag                 t
	sgml-shortag                 t  ))



//Lennart Staflin



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