Re: Question on using emacs to write html

[Jeff <jeffrey@cunningham.net>]

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