How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005)

Re:How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005) by wtbob on Monday August 01, 2016 @04:39AM (#12200932)

> For hand-writing HTML/XML documents, which I do quite a lot, I really enjoy the tag style because of the verbose end tags and the ease of moving blocks.

I can't say anything about liking verbose tags, which seems to me a matter of taste, but moving around S-expression blocks is easy: C-SPC to set the point, M-C-f to move forward one S-expression, C-w to cut the current region, navigate to where one wants it, C-y to yank the cut region.

Granted, this is using emacs, which really had better have good S-expression-editing capabilities after 40 years!

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Re:How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005) by mbrock on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:07AM (#12201486)

I also quite like Dylan's way of ending blocks, letting you type for example "end method do-stuff" so you can see clearly what's being ended, which is useful in a document with long sections.

And I like that XML block moving is even manageable with ed, which I actually use sometimes. Well, and vi.

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