Differences between html-mode and html-helper-mode
There are more similarities between html-helper-mode and html-mode
than differences. This isn't surprising, since my mode was based on
html-mode. There are some important differences, though:
- Insertion philosophy
- html-mode frequently prompts the user in the minibuffer for
the data to fill in fields like titles or headers.
In html-helper-mode, prompting is a user-controlled option.
- Modifying regions
- In html-helper-mode, every command will instead
modify the region if it is called with a prefix argument.
- Automatic text insertion
- html-helper-mode can automatically insert skeletons for
new documents and also maintain timestamps.
- Minimal syntax support
- html-helper-mode does its best to tell emacs about the syntax
of HTML documents.
- Indentation
- html-helper-mode indents nested lists
- Highlighting
- HTML cookies are coloured nicely with hilit19.
- Keymap
- A few obsolete cookies
have been removed, a few new cookies have been added, and
some of the keybindings have been changed to (hopefully) make
it all more intuitive. Look at the mode help.
- Missing features
- Some features of html-mode are not included. These include the
ability to quotify old-style HREFs and automatic naming of anchors
Last modified: Tue Mar 1 22:15:10 1994
Nelson Minar <nelson@reed.edu>