[OS X Emacs] html mode

Wed Aug 24 20:58:00 EDT 2011

On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Henry Harpending wrote:

> Aquamacs starts html-helper-mode when I edit an html file.  I find it 
> truly awful: no keybindings for the commonest things I do, lots of 
> options that I have no clue about.  I would like to start the old html 
> mode instead but I have no idea how to do that.  Would appreciate 
> hints/leads.

to use HTML mode not HTML helper mode, add to .emacs
(setq magic-mode-alist nil)

As I suggest in http://formyfriendswithmacs/aquamacs.html