Re: IDE

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Emacs sucks at multiple-language buffers out of the box.

> I indeed think that we should have infrastructure to turn on a major
> mode in a region of a buffer.

I strongly agree as well.  TextMate does an awesome job at this.

> I'm not sure we should use text properties or overlays for that,
> though.  The region could be part of the command that turns on the
> mode with region limits stored in markers.

I'm not sure what the right technical answer is either, but I'll add this to
the list.

John