On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 09:52, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > > Incidentally, if you use XEmacs you get an HTML mode based on the > > PSGML mode by default. This comes with all the DTDs for HTML, and > > the editing mode is fully validating. You can use mouse clicks to > > figure out what elements are allowed at any point, have emacs > > normalize your HTML code, find errors and so on. All you need to do > > is ensure you have a valid DOCTYPE declaration in your document, > > like > > <grumble> <gripe> <moan> > > Installing 20meg text editor to check this out. I've managed to avoid > emacs so far because I don't want to have to learn to program my > editor for the normal 1/2 page text files which are all I usually > generate. Now you've enticed me with something *I* might find useful. > Built in validation and it remembers the tags too. > > </grumble> </gripe> </moan> I'm surprised that no one has mentioned html-helper-mode yet (apt-cache show html-helper-mode). I know it works in GNUMacs and I'd assume it would work in XEmacs as well though I don't use XEmacs personally. (No technical reason, just ethics.) It has support for pretty much everything that you'd need to do for a webpage, including PHP, ASP, JavaScript and VBScript. Pretty much every tag that you might need to use is mapped to an easy key combination, you get an automatic timestamp option, and launching your work in a browser is as easy as C-c, C-z, v. -Alex
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