Re: Unbinding nxml-mode

[Jason Rumney]

On Monday, 21 May 2012 18:12:55 UTC+8, Peter Flynn  wrote:
> The version of Emacs (23.3.1) shipped with Ubuntu 12.04 prematurely
> binds xml-mode to nxml-mode, so all my .emacs settings for xml-mode
> are ignored (psgml, xxml, etc). I don't know enough emacs-lisp to know
> where this has been done, or how to undo it. How can I make Emacs go
> back to honoring my .emacs file and stop it invoking nxml-mode
> (permanently)?

xml-mode has always been an alias.  In earlier versions, it was an alias for 
sgml-mode. In current versions, it is an alias for nxml-mode.

If you were previously overriding xml-mode to point to psgml or xxml, then the 
same should work for nxml.  Without seeing exactly what your .emacs is doing, 
it is difficult to tell what is causing you problems.