Re: What improvements would be truly useful?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 3/8/18 1:44 PM, Toon Claes wrote:
> IMHO, one thing that I would find interesting is proper support
> for multiple major modes.
>
> I know there has been some talking about this in the past:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-04/msg00585.html
>
> But I'm not sure what the outcome was of that very long thread.

That one reached a dead end, for now.

> I only know later on some improvements were made to have html, css, and
> js modes working together:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-01/msg00775.html
>
> But still having great multiple major mode support--with islands having
> their own major and minor modes--would make Emacs a more modern editor.

mmm-mode (a very old package providing features like that) is soon going 
to be in ELPA. If anyone on this mailing list wanted to contribute, but 
stopped because it wasn't a part of Emacs or ELPA, that will be their 
chance.