Editing FDP files with Emacs (Newbie Question)

[Hoyoung Kim]

Thank you for your reply :)

When I open FDP file in Emacs, sgml-mode is not automatically detected.

I manually enabled this mode via `M-x sgml-mode'.

In this mode, `tab stops set to 2' and `8 leading spaces->single tab' worked fine,
while `word wrap set to 70 chars' seems not working
(this means when I exceeded the limit, there isn't any highlight I can recognize).

So the problems are:

1. Not entering sgml-mode automatically

2. Word wrap set to 70 chars doesn't working

Maybe I'll have to search for this mailing list more carefully.

On 06/02/2015 01:01 AM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> Hello Hoyoung,
>
> On Sun, 31 May 2015, Hoyoung Kim wrote:
>
>> Hello. I'm trying to edit FDP xml files with Emacs.
>> I followed the instruction of FDP Primer(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/editor-config-emacs.html), added several lines to my .emacs file.
>> However, it seems not working(word wrap, tab stops, 8 spaces to 1tab, etc) correctly.
>> I'm using Vim right now, but I prefer Emacs for my text editing.
>> What should I do to edit files appropriately(make documents conform to FDP guidelines) with Emacs?
> Hmm, I am usually a vim user, but looking at the linked .emacs snippet, it
> seems like it only defines a hook to be used when emacs is in sgml-mode.
> When you are editing the FDP files, does emacs autodetect and enter
> sgml-mode?
>
> I thought there had been some email discussion in the past year or two
> about what .vmirc and .emacs config were used by various committers (which
> would probably also be helpful for your situation), but I cannot find it
> with a quick search.
>
> -Ben