Re: html, css, and js modes working together

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11.02.2017 22:20, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The way I see it is that Emacs should come with something reasonable out
> > of the box.
>
> Agreed: html-mode should default to be an alias for "the most popular
> html mode that comes with Emacs".  That doesn't mean that the canonical
> name of that mod should be `html-mode`.

Why not call it selected-html-mode or something? Isn't the most 
important thing to just have it in auto-mode-alist for *.html files out 
of the box? Also, if the function name doesn't end with "-mode", people 
won't try to derive from it, which is good because derived-mode-p 
doesn't handle aliases.

Not a huge concern, but it would make life a bit easier for mmm-mode and 
polymode if html-mode remainted the same as html-basic-mode.