Disabling nxml-mode

[Peter Flynn]

I just upgraded a machine to Ubuntu Natty, which installed Emacs 23.2,
which appears to open XML files in nxml-mode by default. My .emacs file says

(autoload 'xml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit XML files." t )
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$" . xml-mode) auto-mode-alist))

which has been working fine for years. It looks as if Emacs 23.2 defines
xml-mode to point to nxml-mode, and this is somehow superseding my .emacs.

Unfortunately I still need to use psgml's xml-mode for all my XML stuff.
Does anyone know how I disable Emacs' new behaviour?

///Peter

 

[Luuk]

I just upgraded a machine to Ubuntu Natty, which installed Emacs 23.2,
which appears to open XML files in nxml-mode by default. My .emacs file
says

(autoload 'xml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit XML files." t )
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons
'("\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$" .
xml-mode) auto-mode-alist))

which has been working fine for years. It looks as if Emacs 23.2 defines
xml-mode to point to nxml-mode, and this is somehow superseding my .emacs.

Unfortunately I still need to use psgml's xml-mode for all my XML stuff.
Does anyone know how I disable Emacs' new behaviour?

///Peter

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200707/msg00126.html

Is an article from someone who is switching to nxml in 2007, about 4
years ago......

I was just Googling because i want to know what nXML is, but still have
not found the answer

 

[Joe Kesselman]

I was just Googling because i want to know what nXML is, but still have
not found the answer

nXML is a newer version of the XML syntax-annotation-and-assistance
macros for the Emacs editor.

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[Joe Kesselman]

One site which mentions it: http://www.thaiopensource.com/nxml-mode/

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[Joe Kesselman]

Another reference: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NxmlMode


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[Luuk]

Another reference: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NxmlMode

thanks... i will look at it, when i've found some time to do that

 

[Xah Lee]

the reason it nxml-mode is loaded when u call xml-mode is probably
because there is a alias.

you can probably set it back by:

(defalias 'xml-mode 'sgml-xml-mode)

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe]

[PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$" . xml-mode) auto-mode-alist))

that seems to be pretty bad.

you probably want to use add-to-list instead of setq.
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.js\\'" . js2-mode))

also, the file suffix
"\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$"
seems quite wild. What is it?

nxml-mode is a new mode for xml, written by the xml expert James
Clark, who is also the original author of sgml-mode (html-mode and xml-
mode are parts of sgml-mode). nxml-mode features on-the-fly xml
validation. It's 10k lines of elisp.

the following might provide helpful info:

〈How to Install Emacs Packages〉
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_installing_packages.html

〈New Features in Emacs 23〉
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs23_features.html

Xah

I just upgraded a machine to Ubuntu Natty, which installed Emacs 23.2,
which appears to open XML files in nxml-mode by default. My .emacs file says

(autoload 'xml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit XML files." t )
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$" . xml-mode) auto-mode-alist))

which has been working fine for years. It looks as if Emacs 23.2 defines
xml-mode to point to nxml-mode, and this is somehow superseding my .emacs..

Unfortunately I still need to use psgml's xml-mode for all my XML stuff.
Does anyone know how I disable Emacs' new behaviour?

///Peter

 

[Peter Flynn]

I just upgraded a machine to Ubuntu Natty, which installed Emacs 23.2,
which appears to open XML files in nxml-mode by default. My .emacs file
says

(autoload 'xml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit XML files." t )
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons
'("\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$" .
xml-mode) auto-mode-alist))

which has been working fine for years. It looks as if Emacs 23.2 defines
xml-mode to point to nxml-mode, and this is somehow superseding my .emacs.

Unfortunately I still need to use psgml's xml-mode for all my XML stuff.
Does anyone know how I disable Emacs' new behaviour?

Thanks to Jason Rumney on the emacs-nxml-mode mailing list, the solution
is to replace the autoload above with

(require 'nxml-mode)
(require 'psgml)

This works perfectly.

///Peter

 

[Joe Kesselman]

also, the file suffix

"\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$"
seems quite wild. What is it?

It's a regular expression which covers .xml and a heck of a lot of other
possible extensions, including many you probably didn't intend to accept
(such as .repepepec, for those whose frogs confuse flies and files).


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[John Bokma]

also, the file suffix
"\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$"
seems quite wild. What is it?

It's a regular expression which covers .xml and a heck of a lot of
other possible extensions, including many you probably didn't intend
to accept (such as .repepepec, for those whose frogs confuse flies and
files).

LOL!

 

[Peter Flynn]

also, the file suffix
"\\.[XxRrMmDdTt][TtMmDdSsNnEe][PpAaMmLlFfSsIi]?[EePp]*[Cc]*$"
seems quite wild. What is it?

Matches .xml and a stack of other related file extensions. Needs pruning

///Peter