Working with the Emacs WEB mode

The Emacs WEB mode has been concocted by Mark Motl and Bart Childs, both from the Department of Computer Science at TEXas A&M University. The documentation for the WEB-mode can be found on

/afs/ovpit.indiana.edu/common/teTeX/doc/web-mode/webm-man-600dpi.ps.gz

or

http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/PostScript/web-mode/webm-man-600dpi.ps.gz

Unfortunately there appears to be no info document that describes the mode.

While installing the mode on the OVPIT AFS cell I have modified its ``Limbo'' section a little so as to make it work in the first place. Other than that it's very much a vanilla system that I have transferred from TEXas A&M. The mode itself is installed in

/afs/ovpit.indiana.edu/common/gnu/share/emacs/site-lisp/web-mode

where you will find both the Emacs Lisp file, web-modeX.el, and the byte-compiled file, web-modeX.elc. The original TEXas WEB mode file is there too: web-modeX.el.ORIG.

The mode is configured into the Emacs environment in the defaults.el file, which lives in

/afs/ovpit.indiana.edu/common/gnu/share/emacs/20.2/lisp.

This is what the configuration looks like:

(setq load-path
   (nconc load-path
      (list 
       "/afs/ovpit.indiana.edu/common/gnu/share/emacs/site-lisp/web-mode")))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '( "\\.web$" . web-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(autoload 'web-mode "web-modeX" "load a WEB mode")

As you can see from this, whenever you visit a file with extension .web, the WEB mode is loaded automatically.