From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question on using emacs to write html Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:58:14 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074837813 20076 80.91.224.253 (23 Jan 2004 06:03:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 07:03:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjuPd-00065L-00 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 07:03:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjuNG-0005C5-72 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:00:58 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!attbi_s01.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.230.227.255 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net Original-X-Trace: attbi_s01 1074837490 12.230.227.255 (Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:58:10 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:58:10 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120354 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16298 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16298 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