Re: beautify html

[BG - B. A. <BAr...@dy...>]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:47 -0400, Steve Hall wrote:
> AFAIK there is no good way to re-format existing HTML (code) from
> one/no particular format to another. Vim has a way to reformat C as I
> understand, but I've never found anything that I trust.
> 
> A simpler approach would be to write a function with a series of
> regular expressions to re-format a given document. For example:
> 
>     function! Cream_prettify_html()
> 
>         if &ft != "html"
>             call confirm("Document is not filetype \"HTML\".")
>             return
>         endif
> 
>         " tags that end a line
>         :s%/html>\n*/html>\r/gei
>         :s%/head>\n*/head>\r/gei
>         :s%/body>\n*/body>\r/gei
>         :s%/<\/p>\n*/<\/p>\r/gei
>         :s%/<\/li>\n*/<\/li>\r/gei
>         :s%/<\/ul>\n*/<\/ul>\r/gei
>         :s%/<\/ol>\n*/<\/ol>\r/gei
>         :s%/<\/dl>\n*/<\/dl>\r/gei
>         :s%/<\/blockquote>\n*/<\/blockquote>\r/gei
> 
>         if exists("g:I-hate-XML")
>             :s%/strong>/b>/gei
>             :s%/em>/i>/gei
>         endif
> 
>         " ...etc...
> 
>     endfunction
> 
> Basic, but I kind of like it. We can tweak the settings until everyone
> is happy or option those settings that make some uncomfortable.
> 
> Opinions?

I have users here who would use such a thing.

As an alternative, what about an external beautifier?  It would be nice
if you could make a selection, pass it to "tidy", and have the tidied
results replace the selection.

Ben