On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:42:15PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote:
> Gang,
>
> What are people using for HTML editing ??
i'm bothered that no-one here has mentioned emacs' psgml mode. its all
i ever use for any HTML (or other SGML, like docbook) editing.
xemacs comes with it standard, just open a .html file and away you
go.
features:
font/colour syntax highlighting. auto indenting (naturally)
context sensitve insertion of new tags
automatic insertion of mandatory tags
pop up menus (under xemacs) for new tags, or attributes for
elements. just right-click on something
html validation. hit C-o to jump to the next trouble-spot
trigger viewing in netscape, w3, kfm, anything else you add
interactively filled templates for new html files
query tag info, attributes, etc
automatic updating of "page last modifed" text (and whatever else you
want to hook in)
(and an obscure-but-incredibly-useful-when-you-need-it feature: it
allows you to still do all the above context stuff, even when the html
is split across several files (like with server-side includes))
.. and whatever other "standard" emacs features you care to name
i'm using HTML::Embperl (think of it as perl's answer to php) here at
work, and xemacs uses html-mode for the html bits and automatically
switches to perl-mode for the perl bits. what more could you want?
--
- Gus
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
