please, think of the newbies. delete sgml-mode.

I'm in the middle of the sad experience of talking someone who had never used emacs before (and is new to Unix as well) through the process of: - launch xemacs - open an html file - make a trivial edit (Her first comment: "good lord that splash screen is hidious!") After getting past the horror that is the File/Open dialog ("oh, don't ever use that, it's an abomination") the next roadblock she had to contend with was the HTML mode you are using by default. "Why is it asking me for my email address? I just want to edit a file!" "Why does it keep opening a new file that says 'External entity not found'? Gaah, help!" I'm frankly stunned that she hasn't given up yet. That SGML mode is a total nightmare. Please please please turn it off by default! Even fundamental-mode is better than this for editing HTML. For the record, this is what I use, and I think the default HTML mode should do *no more than this* by default. If people want a bondage-and-discipline mode with whacked out keybindings, then let them load it explicitly. http://www.jwz.org/hacks/jwz-html-mode.el (Then, of course, it got even worse, because she's doing this on OSX, and all the existing HTML files she wants to edit use ^M as a line ending. Imagine the joy of explaining to an emacs newbie how to do "M-x replace-string RET C-q C-m RET C-q C-j RET" and what the hell that means and why it's needed...) -- Jamie Zawinski jwz(a)jwz.org http://www.jwz.org/ jwz(a)dnalounge.com http://www.dnalounge.com/