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From: Angela Bellavance <bellavan@fnal.gov>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Need help customizing "TAB" for HTML
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:21:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B94973.9060102@fnal.gov> (raw)

Hello,

I am using emacs to create HTML documents and am getting frustrated with 
the default settings for TAB. When I type TAB to indent a line, it 
always seems to add at least two spaces more than the indent on the 
previous line. This occurs even when the previous line contains only one 
tag that does not have a matching closing tag. I would prefer that TAB 
would line up under the start of the previous line unless I have left a 
tag open. Ideally this would happen even if I manually adjust where the 
previous line is indented to.

Here's an example. Here's what it looks like when I use the default TAB 
in HTML-mode on the following text:

<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   <body bgcolor="#ffff99">
     <h1>Shift Guide</h1>
       <i>Most Recent Update:</i><br>
         <i>$Author: bellavan $</i><br>
           <i>$Revision: 1.59 $</i><br>

I would like it to look like this:

<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   <body bgcolor="#ffff99">
     <h1>CDF SAM Shift Guide</h1>
     <i>Most Recent Update:</i><br>
     <i>$Author: bellavan $</i><br>
     <i>$Revision: 1.59 $</i><br>

Or even better, this:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffff99">
   <h1>CDF SAM Shift Guide</h1>
   <i>Most Recent Update:</i><br>
   <i>$Author: bellavan $</i><br>
   <i>$Revision: 1.59 $</i><br>

where I have manually moved the tag "<head>" back to the beginning of 
the line and used TAB to align the rest of the lines.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!
Angela

             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-26  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-26  0:21 Angela Bellavance [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.3610.1169770885.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-26  5:14 ` Need help customizing "TAB" for HTML Stefan Monnier
2007-01-26 20:39   ` Angela Bellavance
2007-01-27  1:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-27  1:47     ` David Hansen

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