If you don’t need an explanation of MuMaMo, here’s the gist – do
mumamo [return]
This brings up the group customization options for MuMaMo. Among other things, you can change the definition of ‘MuMaMo Background Chunk Submode Face’ and ‘MuMaMo Background Chunk MajorMode Face’. If you haven’t worked with Emacs Customization groups before, it can be confusing. But persevere, the settings you want are likely in there. After you change the Face definition, you can then go down and choose which Face definition you want applied to the Submode and Major Mode.
On my Emacs, PHP blocks (and all Submode chunks) were in ‘dark green’. Major blocks were in ‘Midnight Blue’. Now for Major blocks I am not applying any face, just ‘default’. And for Submode chunks I have #081010 ( just a bit lighter than the default black background).
More on MuMaMo
If you have Emacs nxhtml-mode installed, chances are Emacs has turned on
before. I know, that word looks crazy. It stands for ‘Multiple Major Modes’. This is so that when you’re working with multiple languages in the same document, HTML and PHP for example, Emacs can show you where chunks of code begin and end. Because Emacs has “Major modes” for both PHP and HTML, (php-mode and nxhtml-mode) it turns on
when it detects this. I assume the purpose of this is so you can have benefits of both major modes without choosing only one. And so that Emacs does not, by default, assume which major mode you’d like to work in.
Hi Proffesional Dilettante,
If you want to suggest some better default background chunk colors (especially for the dark background case) then please do.
I would be glad to include them in the nXhtml distribution.