I also got upset by how whimsical js2-mode can be at times. Espresso-mode (now just js-mode in emacs 23) indents perfectly, and is generally very sane, albeit s

I also got upset by how whimsical js2-mode can be at times. Espresso-mode (now just js-mode in emacs 23) indents perfectly, and is generally very sane, albeit somewhat boring. I use that as my major mode. However, to get the cool static analysis that I miss from js2-mode, I have flymake set up to us jslint. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FlymakeJavaScript http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FlymakeJavaScript The combo of espresso-mode and flymake is like The Good Parts of js2-mode. Now once I add this in to the mix...