re: revised html-mode.el

Heiko Muenkel (muenkel@tnt.uni-hannover.de)
Wed, 20 Apr 94 15:50:43 +0200


Arnold Bloemer writes:
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> >From www-talk@www0.cern.ch Wed Apr 20 12:25:00 1994
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 12:16:46 --100
> From: paolo petta <paolo@venedig.ai.univie.ac.at>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> Subject: re: revised html-mode.el
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> [original message by Daniel W. Connolly ]
> > p.s. I've resumed hacking on html-mode... I started with a little
> > ditty that attempts to put in all these missing <P> tags to bring
> > a doc up to date... it also sticks "<!DOCTYPE ..." at the top.
> >
> > I also changed the "html-add-code" etc. to work on the region, like a
> > good little word processor should: you select some text with the mouse
> > and choose Emphasize from the menu, and it wraps the selection with
> > <em>...</em>. How many times to you go "hmmm.. I think I'm going to
> > write some emphasized text..." versus "ah... that span of text should
> > be marked as CODE." Headers are the same way... type in the header,
> > select it, then make it a header.
> >
> > This way is _much_ easer for hand-converting text documents into HTML.
> > Anybody interested?
> >
>
> Would it be feasible to have a "merger" of this hacked html-mode and
> the hm--html-menus package (available at e.g. info.cern.ch (pub/www/contrib),
> sunsite.unc.edu (/pub/Linux/apps/editors/emacs/) and
> ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (in /pub/unix/editors/lemacs/contrib)?
>
> e.g. hm--html-menus has supported the "work on selection" for a long time...
> Perhaps if Heiko Muenkel (the author) were willing to accept/coordinate
> patches, extensions, etc. much effort could be saved...
>
> paolo
>
> ps.: While this message is motivated because I hate always having to
> choose between n packages for the same job, each of which
> supporting some handy/nice feature the others don't, I readily
> admit that this issue has (very?) low priority..
>

Please send me your lisp code. I will see, if I can merge it with my own code.
I'm also interested in other extensions, suggestions and so on.

Heiko

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