Re: Specifying mode in file variables trouble

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>     But I would be wary of pulling in a full-fledged XML machinery just to
>     edit (pure) PHP source just because it is sometimes embedded in (X)HTML
>     templates.
> 
> That would be a problem, but we can easily avoid it.  Here are two
> ways.
> 
> * Make `php-mode' check whether there is HTML or XML in the file
> and choose the mode accordingly.
> 
> * Arrange for mumamo not to call `nxml-mode' unless/until you move
> point into an HTML chunk.

This is the way I have implemented it now, a major mode is not loaded by
mumamo until you move into a chunk where this major mode is used.