Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: (xslide) Indentation

[Glen P. <gl...@or...>]

Colin wrote:

>Is there any particular release or CVS version that the patches apply to?

It's not really a patch, just a newer version of two files.  The latest whole package available on the home page is old.  I got the latest version of each file from the CVS tree.  It seems my XEmacs Windows distribution had done that for me already which was pretty cool.

    >> Are you saying that the contents of a comment or CDATA section
    >> should be treated as pre-formatted text?

    Glen> Yes - when using indent-region.  Well put.  I wish I had
    Glen> thought to say it that way in the first place.

>So, is the performatted text as a whole indented to a fixed-column?

It depends.  The tab key will insert tabs (or spaces if you prefer) in these sections so you can change them manually.  If you perform an indent-region those sections will be unaffected.

In any other part of the document, the tab key will still perform an "indent-line" command.

To indent a region, first select (highlight) it, then while it's highlighted, invoke indent-region.  I have indent-region mapped to C-M-\ but you can also invoke it with:

M-x eval-expr
(indent-region)

>Now, what about xhtml definition lists? Anything special for them?
>(I'm asking because I'm writing one write now - I use xsl mode for
>xhtml editing - I prefer it to html-mode). 

Can you send a representative document to the list?  Is it XML?  If so, I would hope it would just work.  I haven't done a lot of testing with tags that start with <! or <? (aside from CDATA or the xml tags) so there might be some problems.  Can any <! tags have children?

-Glen
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Glen Peterson
Senior Software Engineer, Web Consultant
South Hamilton, MA USA