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Re: Question on using emacs to write html
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Jeff |
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Re: Question on using emacs to write html |
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Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:58:14 GMT |
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Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) |
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:29:17 -0600, Tim McNamara wrote:
> Try "html-helper-mode" which works like a charm. It has a menu (with
> associated key bindings) for most tags and such. You can even select a
> string and html-helper-mode will place the opening and closing tags in
> their proper places. Trick!
>
> The only trouble I've had- and it's *really* minor- is that it spends a
> bit of time fontifying files, not much of a problem except on big files.
> html-helper-mode colors tags and text very nicely and it's easy to see
> the structure of the document. I haven't tried it with jit-lock or
> lazy-lock, which might speed up that fontifying.
>
> There are a number of HTML/XML/SGML type modes available. XML-mode
> works OK, I prefer html-helper-mode (although XML-mode has a menu item
> for previewing the buffer in a browser, which is really handy for
> checking quickly and easily on the effects of any changes to the code; I
> should suggest this for html-helper-mode, unless the maintainer sees
> this before I get around to it).
Hey, thanks you guys. I'm grabbing it now. Glad I asked.
-Jeff