Writing HTML, which emacs package?

Writing HTML, which emacs package?

[Frank Sonnemans]

Hi,

I am currently using Emacs as my HTML editor together with
html-helper mode. Even though this works pretty well, I am missing
some features. Question is if there is a better package or should I
just hack on the html-helper mode with my limited lisp skills.

Missing for me are:

- XHTML support, for example properly closing tag like <br />

- Selectively making some functions interactive. For example I dont'
  want <li> </li> to be interactive, but tags with multiple keywords
  such as the <img src="" alt="" /> tag is easier to use in
  tempo-interacive mode.

Any recommendations?

Regards,

Frank

Re: Writing HTML, which emacs package?

[D. D. Brierton]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:11:36 +0100, Frank Sonnemans wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am currently using Emacs as my HTML editor together with
> html-helper mode. Even though this works pretty well, I am missing
> some features. Question is if there is a better package or should I
> just hack on the html-helper mode with my limited lisp skills.
> 
> Missing for me are:
> 
> - XHTML support, for example properly closing tag like <br />
> 
> - Selectively making some functions interactive. For example I dont'
>   want <li> </li> to be interactive, but tags with multiple keywords
>   such as the <img src="" alt="" /> tag is easier to use in
>   tempo-interacive mode.
> 
> Any recommendations?

I use psgml in combination with MMM -- see the instructions here:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HtmlModeDeluxe

Getting psgml up and running -- especially getting the W3C DTDs (why
oh why don't they make them all available in a single package) is a pain
but very much worth it. Read up about psgml (use google) -- and if you're
still interested and want some help using it for (X)HTML editing then drop
me an email (if you just post to the NG I may miss it) and I can help you
out (e.g. send you all the relevant DTDs, send you the relevant bits of my
.emacs, etc.).

I must say that I currently have one of the nicest (X)HTML editing
environments I've ever used. It could be better, admittedly, and when I
find some time I'd especially like to make some improvements to CSS mode,
and I use javascript-generic-mode for javascript which is pretty
bare-bones. But nevertheless, I think it's pretty damn nifty.

Best, Darren

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Re: Writing HTML, which emacs package?

[Adam Hardy]

On 02/16/2004 10:41 PM D. D. Brierton wrote:
>>Missing for me are:
>>
>>- XHTML support, for example properly closing tag like <br />
> I use psgml in combination with MMM -- see the instructions here:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HtmlModeDeluxe
> 
> Getting psgml up and running -- especially getting the W3C DTDs (why
> oh why don't they make them all available in a single package) is a pain
> but very much worth it. Read up about psgml (use google) -- and if you're
> still interested and want some help using it for (X)HTML editing then drop
> me an email (if you just post to the NG I may miss it) and I can help you
> out (e.g. send you all the relevant DTDs, send you the relevant bits of my
> .emacs, etc.).

Darren,
I would definitely be interested in your .emacs snippets, since you're 
offering. :)

I'm using html-helper-mode, since I couldn't figure out the way to get 
the psgml working - or at least, I kept getting loads of "External 
entity HTML not found".


Adam
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