Extending html-helper-mode for Coldfusion

Extending html-helper-mode for Coldfusion

[Rick Crawford]

I'm a coldfusion developer, and I use GNU Emacs as my editor.  After
much searching I've come to the conclusion that (surprisingly) there
doesn't seem to be a major mode with coldfusion support.  This isn't a
big problem since coldfusion is a tag-based language embedded within
html and html-helper-mode can help a lot.  

But I've found that I'd like to extend html-helper-mode with support
for coldfusion tags.  I'm a newcomer to lisp, but I'm really having
fun getting my feet wet.  Anyway, I started to dig in and add
coldfusion support to html-helper-mode.el.  Then I looked at the beta
for html-helper-mode (http://www.santafe.edu/~nelson/hhm-beta/) and
noticed that it has added support for a user-extensible tag database.

I want to add more than tag support to html-helper-mode, though.  I'd
like to allow users to add certain variables to their .emacs so that,
for instance, the DATASOURCE attribute of a CFQUERY tag would be
filled in by his application-specific datasource.  And eventually I'd
like to add CFSCRIPT support (which is a lot like javascript).

Anyway, since I'm so new at this, I wanted to get some advice before I
continue.  Should I use the beta of html-helper-mode and its
extensible tag support, despite the fact that it seems that this beta
has been neglected for some years?  Will that be powerful enough for
coldfusion developers' needs?  Any thoughts?

Thank you,

-Rick

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Extending html-helper-mode for Coldfusion

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "RC" == Rick Crawford <rick@vroop.com> writes:

RC> looked at the beta for html-helper-mode
RC> (http://www.santafe.edu/~nelson/hhm-beta/) and noticed that it has
RC> added support for a user-extensible tag database.

????

Did Nelson resume his role as mantainer of the mode ?

RC> I want to add more than tag support to html-helper-mode, though.
RC> I'd like to allow users to add certain variables to their .emacs
RC> so that, for instance, the DATASOURCE attribute of a CFQUERY tag
RC> would be filled in by his application-specific datasource.  And
RC> eventually I'd like to add CFSCRIPT support (which is a lot like
RC> javascript).

For  sure you  did  not  find html-helper-mode  3.0.4  jolly (it's  an
evolution of Nelson's work) at http://www.nongnu.org/baol-hth/index.html

That adds (tries to add) PHP/JSP/ASP support plus JavaScript/VBScript.

You could base your coldfusion-helper-mode on that.

Feel free to contact me directly if you wish.

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Re: Extending html-helper-mode for Coldfusion

[Nelson Minar]

html-helper-mode forked a long time ago into many versions.

Re: Extending html-helper-mode for Coldfusion

[Brad Collins]

This might be a stupid suggestion, but you might want to check out
PHP-mode (I think you can find it on Source Forge).

PHP, like Cold Fusion, is often embedded in HTML and they have good
support with other HTML modes (I forget which).

b/


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Brad Collins
Chenla Labs
Bangkok, Thailand