Post #2852877
2026-05-18 18:01 UTC
@vnikolov@ieji.de @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @bagder@mastodon.social @me This approach has many limitations, and https://github.com/polymode/polymode attempts to do more. But polymode is fragile. Emacs major mode system is not designed for such use. (There have been two feature requests in the past on emacs-devel for multiple major modes, but even the design of such support was not entirely clear)
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@yantar92@fosstodon.org 2026-05-18 18:02
@vnikolov@ieji.de @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @bagder@mastodon.social @me Even older attempt is https://github.com/dgutov/mmm-mode, but every time I look inside, I feel that things are overengineered there.
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@vnikolov@ieji.de 2026-05-18 18:06
@yantar92@fosstodon.org Indeed, as you yourself point out, mixing major modes in the same buffer is a much bigger and more difficult thing, starting with working out the specification. @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @bagder@mastodon.social @me