Re: PHP mode in Emacs?

[Lennart Borgman]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I can really see no way to stop different modes from stomping at each other
> > with mmm-mode.
> >     
>
> That's a failure of imagination; you seem to assume major modes are free to
> do whatever they want, but that's not the case: they can technically do what
> they want, but it can lead to various problems which are then considered
> as bugs in the major mode.
>
> So all we need to do is to come up with a kind of convention for how the
> major modes should be written such that they cooperate well with mmm-mode.
>
>
>         Stefan
>   
Yes, you are right. I thought I was suggesting something like that when 
I wrote about regions or list of regions for a major mode. Maybe we 
could suggest an interface for telling the major modes (or minor modes) 
where to apply themselves? That would be a minimum I guess.