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* Possible bugs with indentation in html mode
@ 2007-02-16 23:31 Angela Bellavance
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Angela Bellavance @ 2007-02-16 23:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hello,

I'm editing HTML code using emacs and I'm noticing 
some strange behavior with the indentation.
I can hit TAB on elements like "<table>" and "<tr>" 
and "<td>", and emacs will happily indent each by 
two spaces relative to the container tag, ending the 
additional space when it finds the corresponding 
closing tag. However, it does not handle single tags 
well (e.g. "<br>", "<meta...>", etc.). Emacs adds 
the two-space indentation following one of these 
single tags and will not decrement the indentation 
unless a closing tag is found for some surrounding 
set of tags.

Is there any chance of fixing this behavior?

I had one other question as well. Is there any way 
to make the indentation behavior follow the 
"relative to previous line" rule?  Personally, I 
don't always want the addition of two spaces of 
indentation added every time I open a tag set. For 
example, I would prefer something like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>
   <font color="black">This is my title</font>
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is my title</h1>
<br>
<table>
   <tr>
     <td>Cell 1</td>
     <td>Cell 2</td>
   </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

But if I TAB-indent the above HTML using Emacs, I 
get this:

<html>
   <head>
     <title>
       <font color="black">This is my title</font>
     </title>
   </head>
   <body>
     <h1>This is my title</h1>
     <br>
     <table>
       <tr>
         <td>Cell 1</td>
         <td>Cell 2</td>
       </tr>
     </table>
     </body>
</html>

When I've got nested tables with large cell 
contents, having every line indented those extra 
several spaces can really be a pain....

Thanks for any help or suggestions!

- Angela

-- 
Dr. Angela Bellavance
Fermilab Computing Division
Running Experiments Operations
630-840-2284
bellavan@fnal.gov

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* Re: Possible bugs with indentation in html mode
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@ 2007-02-17  4:41 ` Stefan Monnier
  2007-02-17  5:57   ` Angela Bellavance
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2007-02-17  4:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> I'm editing HTML code using emacs and I'm noticing some strange behavior
> with the indentation.

Emacs does not come with an HTML mode that provides indentation (unless
you're using a development version such as the soon-to-be-released
Emacs-22).  There are several packages out there that provide an HTML mode
with indentation.  So please tell us which HTML mode you're using.

> I can hit TAB on elements like "<table>" and "<tr>" and "<td>", and emacs
> will happily indent each by two spaces relative to the container tag,
> ending the additional space when it finds the corresponding closing tag.
> However, it does not handle single tags well (e.g. "<br>", "<meta...>",
> etc.).  Emacs adds the two-space indentation following one of these single
> tags and will not decrement the indentation unless a closing tag is found
> for some surrounding set of tags.

I believe the Emacs-22 HTML mode does handle those special tags correctly,
so I presume this is another mode you're talking about.


        Stefan

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* Re: Possible bugs with indentation in html mode
  2007-02-17  4:41 ` Possible bugs with indentation in html mode Stefan Monnier
@ 2007-02-17  5:57   ` Angela Bellavance
  2007-02-17  6:37     ` Matthew Flaschen
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From: Angela Bellavance @ 2007-02-17  5:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

I guess technically I am using XEmacs (version 
21.4.19), not emacs.
- Angela

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Emacs does not come with an HTML mode that provides indentation (unless
> you're using a development version such as the soon-to-be-released
> Emacs-22).  There are several packages out there that provide an HTML mode
> with indentation.  So please tell us which HTML mode you're using.

-- 
Dr. Angela Bellavance
Fermilab Computing Division
Running Experiments Operations
630-840-2284
bellavan@fnal.gov

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* Re: Possible bugs with indentation in html mode
  2007-02-17  5:57   ` Angela Bellavance
@ 2007-02-17  6:37     ` Matthew Flaschen
  2007-02-17 16:55     ` Stefan Monnier
       [not found]     ` <mailman.4641.1171694271.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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From: Matthew Flaschen @ 2007-02-17  6:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Angela Bellavance, emacs


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Angela Bellavance wrote:
> I guess technically I am using XEmacs (version 21.4.19), not emacs.
> - Angela

Then don't post to help-*gnu-emacs*.  GNU Emacs is produced by the GNU
Project (http://www.gnu.org/). XEmacs (http://www.xemacs.org/) is a fork
of GNU Emacs.  In case you don't know GNU Emacs runs on X Windows.

Matthew Flaschen


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* Re: Possible bugs with indentation in html mode
  2007-02-17  5:57   ` Angela Bellavance
  2007-02-17  6:37     ` Matthew Flaschen
@ 2007-02-17 16:55     ` Stefan Monnier
       [not found]     ` <mailman.4641.1171694271.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2007-02-17 16:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Angela Bellavance; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

> I guess technically I am using XEmacs (version 21.4.19), not emacs.

Then check comp.emacs or comp.emacs.xemacs.  The group/list you used is
specifically for Emacs.


        Stefan

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* Re: Possible bugs with indentation in html mode
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@ 2007-02-17 16:58       ` RealityMonster
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From: RealityMonster @ 2007-02-17 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

On Feb 16, 11:37 pm, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flasc...@gatech.edu>
wrote:
> Angela Bellavance wrote:
> > I guess technically I am using XEmacs (version 21.4.19), not emacs.
> > - Angela
>
> Then don't post to help-*gnu-emacs*.  GNU Emacs is produced by the GNU
> Project (http://www.gnu.org/). XEmacs (http://www.xemacs.org/) is a fork
> of GNU Emacs.  In case you don't know GNU Emacs runs on X Windows.
>
> Matthew Flaschen
>
>  signature.asc
> 1KDownload

No, post here if you like, and just keep in mind that we might not be
able to help with specific XEmacs-isms, or some things might be a bit
fiddly. Quite a lot of stuff is the same -- precisely because XEmacs
is a fork -- so you can find some good answers here.

And both XEmacs and GNU Emacs run on most UNIX and Windows systems.
You don't require X Windows at all.

JS

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