[Aquamacs-devel] html-helper-mode won't indent

[David Reitter]

On Sep 28, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Pete Siemsen wrote:

>
> On Sep 28, 2009, at 6:27 AM, David Reitter wrote:
>
>> On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Pete Siemsen wrote:
>>> 1. The html-helper-mode that comes with Aquamacs is version 1.5.   
>>> Version 2.19 is available.  Version 1.5 has a much smaller set of  
>>> commands, so at first glance you might conclude that html-helper- 
>>> mode isn't much better than html-mode.
>>
>> Are you sure?  The 1.5 is based on an automatic CVS versioning  
>> mechanism.   Doesn't reflect reality.
>
>> If you look at the authors list, you might infer that we're  
>> actually using a much more advanced version of html-helper-mode,  
>> which is based on Nelson Minar's original mode.
>>
>> http://www.nongnu.org/baol-hth/index.html
>
> Ok, I'm confused :-)  Here are the versions that I now know about:
>
> 1.
> The one that comes with Aquamacs.
> It's in /Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit- 
> modes/html-helper-mode.el.
> It's html-helper-mode-version variable says "1.5".
> It's 94203 bytes.
> When you do help-mode, it displays a very short list of commands -  
> about 35.
> This one has a comment that says you modified it for Aquamacs in 2008.

... and the version control change log says that is the latest  
available version from their CVS.  This is dated May 16, and it is  
still here:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/baol-hth/html-helper-mode.el?revision=3.10&root=baol-hth&view=markup

It has a few fixes on top of that that I think I wrote, as in the  
change log and in the comment.

> 3.
> The one I just downloaded from http://www.nongnu.org/baol-hth/
> It's html-helper-mode-version variable says "3.0.4jolly".
> It's 97505 bytes.
> When you do help-mode, it displays the longest list of commands -  
> about 134.
>
> Please forgive my confusion :-)

Why jolly, and not kilo, which they have available there as well?
Kilo is dated May 16, 2004.

The two don't seem to differ in terms of commands, but the CVS based  
version seems to be more modern (and has dropped support for Emacs 18).

>> Writing a little Lisp function to indent a single line would be the  
>> cleanest approach.
>
> I'm interested.  Should I start with version #3, or does it need  
> some Aquamacs-specific
> mods first?

I'd say start with version #1, the one included in Aquamacs. It's  
where the original authors apparently gave up.

- David
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