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>>>>> "Dominique" == Dominique  <domi@vision.ee.ethz.ch> writes:
> i'm new to emacs, although I know xemacs a bit. I have problems with
> indenting in html file. It just doesnt work - unlike xemacs, it doesn't
> indent lines when I press TAB.

The development version of Emacs (available from savannah's CVS repository)
does offer automatic indentation.  But Emacs-21.[123] doesn't have
this feature.

> Another thing: is it easy to create my own highlighting/indenting scheme for
> my custom language?

Indenting is often fairly tricky, which is why it took so long for
sgml-mode to offer it.


        Stefan