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>