pretty-layout in html-mode

pretty-layout in html-mode

[Chris Withers]

Hi All,

In html-mode, how can I get the html layed out out sensibly?
(ie: I'm starting off with a file that has weird tabbing, spacing, etc, 
all over the place and I want it all normalised)

cheers,

Chris

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Re: pretty-layout in html-mode

[ken]

On 05/12/2009 05:28 AM Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In html-mode, how can I get the html layed out out sensibly?
> (ie: I'm starting off with a file that has weird tabbing, spacing, etc,
> all over the place and I want it all normalised)
> ....

Using html-helper-mode, doing C-i properly indents the current line.  So
 in such files I start with the point on the first line, do C-i, then do
the same on the second line, and so on.  This of course doesn't work if
all the html code is on one line.  The tags and text you want to indent
properly must lie at the beginning of a new line (optionally with some
white space preceding it); that is, C-i won't insert newlines at proper
locations.  ("Proper location" is not an objective determination
anyway.)  But html-helper-mode does understand opening and closing tags
and (normally) indents these at the same level.

hth,
ken

Re: pretty-layout in html-mode

[Chris Withers]

ken wrote:
> Using html-helper-mode, doing C-i properly indents the current line.  So
>  in such files I start with the point on the first line, do C-i, then do
> the same on the second line, and so on.  This of course doesn't work if
> all the html code is on one line.  The tags and text you want to indent
> properly must lie at the beginning of a new line (optionally with some
> white space preceding it); that is, C-i won't insert newlines at proper
> locations.  ("Proper location" is not an objective determination
> anyway.)  But html-helper-mode does understand opening and closing tags
> and (normally) indents these at the same level.

Thanks, but I'm looking for something more like:
- select region
- M-x unsuck-html-layout

Chris

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Re: pretty-layout in html-mode

[tomas]

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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:59:57AM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> ken wrote:
>> Using html-helper-mode, doing C-i properly indents the current line.  So

[...]

> Thanks, but I'm looking for something more like:
> - select region
> - M-x unsuck-html-layout

I don't know at the moment how to pipe a region through an external
process, but that should be feasible. Xmllint does a nice job at what
you are trying:

  xmllint --html --format <your html file here>

Maybe others could chime in as to how one could pass the region (or the
whole buffer) through an external program?

Regards
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Re: pretty-layout in html-mode

[Chris Withers]

tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> I don't know at the moment how to pipe a region through an external
> process, but that should be feasible. Xmllint does a nice job at what
> you are trying:
> 
>   xmllint --html --format <your html file here>
> 
> Maybe others could chime in as to how one could pass the region (or the
> whole buffer) through an external program?

I'm hoping for something internal to emacs as, for tedious but 
unchangeable reasons, I'm stuck running on Windows...

Chris

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Re: pretty-layout in html-mode

[tomas]

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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:57:42AM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> [external process mumbo jumbo]

> I'm hoping for something internal to emacs

As Anselm pointed out upthread, indent-region might work for you. Alas,
it doesn't take apart long lines. 

>                                             as, for tedious but unchangeable 
> reasons, I'm stuck running on Windows...

You have my most sincere condolences.

(but: xmllint, part of the libxml2 suite should be available on Windows)

Regards
- -- tomás
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Re: pretty-layout in html-mode

[B. T. Raven]

Chris Withers wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> I don't know at the moment how to pipe a region through an external
>> process, but that should be feasible. Xmllint does a nice job at what
>> you are trying:
>>
>>   xmllint --html --format <your html file here>
>>
>> Maybe others could chime in as to how one could pass the region (or the
>> whole buffer) through an external program?
> 
> I'm hoping for something internal to emacs as, for tedious but 
> unchangeable reasons, I'm stuck running on Windows...
> 
> Chris
> 

If the external program can be invoked as a standard filter then M-| 
(shell-command-on-region) might work. I ran it with sort and a sorted 
region was written to a new *Shell Command Output* buffer.

Ed

Re: pretty-layout in html-mode

[Anselm Helbig]

At Tue, 12 May 2009 10:59:57 +0100,
Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> ken wrote:
> > Using html-helper-mode, doing C-i properly indents the current line.  So
> >  in such files I start with the point on the first line, do C-i, then do
> > the same on the second line, and so on.  This of course doesn't work if
> > all the html code is on one line.  The tags and text you want to indent
> > properly must lie at the beginning of a new line (optionally with some
> > white space preceding it); that is, C-i won't insert newlines at proper
> > locations.  ("Proper location" is not an objective determination
> > anyway.)  But html-helper-mode does understand opening and closing tags
> > and (normally) indents these at the same level.
> 
> Thanks, but I'm looking for something more like:
> - select region
> - M-x unsuck-html-layout

You're looking for `indent-region' which is bound to C-M-\. I'm using
it with html-mode, works great. 

Regards, 

Anselm


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