An acutally useful html-mode for emacs

If you've ever used html-mode for emacs, your reaction likely was similar to mine. "What the hell? Why does every time I type angle bracket it give me < Argggh!" So, I thought about it, and decided funamental mode was about the best for writing HTML.

I did want, however to be able to have pretty hilit19 colors (if you don't use emacs19, you're out of luck, sorry). So, I redefined html-mode to be the same as fundamental-mode, but with a different name, as follows:

(defun html-mode ()
  "Mkgray's html mode"
  (interactive)
  (setq major-mode 'html-mode)
  (setq mode-name "HTML")
  (run-hooks 'funamental-mode-hook))

And then enabled hilit19 stuff:

         (setq hilit-mode-enable-list  '(not text-mode)
               hilit-background-mode   'dark
               hilit-inhibit-hooks     nil
               hilit-inhibit-rebinding nil)
	 (require 'hilit19)

Then I added some pretty colors (the fun part). Specifically:

All 'elements' (ie things that begin with &'s) are green
All open tags are purple and close tags are a different purple
Except
Headers are two different reds
Links are three different blues (one for the open tag, another for the url, another for the close tag
Images are yellow

Note, these colors are designed to work with an emacs with a dark color as a background. Here's the elisp:

; HTML stuff
         (hilit-add-pattern "&[^;]+;" "" 'green 'html-mode nil)
         (hilit-add-pattern "<[Ii][mM][Gg] *[^>]+>" "" 'yellow 'html-mode nil)
         (hilit-add-pattern "<[hH][1-6]>" "" 'red 'html-mode nil)
         (hilit-add-pattern "" "" 'hex-c44 'html-mode nil)
         (hilit-add-pattern "[hH][Rr][Ee][Ff] *= *\"[^\"]+\"" "" 'hex-28c 'html-mode nil)
         (hilit-add-pattern "<[aA] *[^>]+>" "" 'hex-55e 'html-mode nil)
         (hilit-add-pattern "" "" 'hex-33c 'html-mode nil)
         (hilit-add-pattern "]+>" "" 'hex-c7c 'html-mode nil)
         (hilit-add-pattern "<[^>]+>" "" 'hex-b3b 'html-mode nil)

Now, when I edit html, it looks nice in a way that is useful to me! My page about me now looks colorful in emacs [image].

Have fun.

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An acutally useful html-mode for emacs

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