Subject: Re: bug#35517: 27.0.50; Small improvements to HTML mode

From: Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 10:33:46 -0700

On 06/23/19 19:16 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Here's an updated patch -- "div" elements should always have "span" and
>> "id" offered as attributes.
>
> This made me confused until I read the code -- which is "class" and
> "id", which makes more sense.  :-)

Oops!

> But...
>
>
> [...]
>
>> +	(unless (or alist quiet)
>> +	  (message "No attributes configured."))
>> +        (when alist
>> +          ;; Add class and id attributes if a) the element has any
>> +          ;; other attributes configured, and b) they're not already
>> +          ;; present.
>> +          (unless (assoc-string "class" alist)
>> +            (setq alist (cons '("class") alist)))
>> +          (unless (assoc-string "id" alist)
>> +            (setq alist (cons '("id") alist))))
>
> Should <div>s always have class/id attributes?  I guess it's unusual to
> have neither, but I find myself writing <div>s all the time with just
> class.  Or just id...

The patch changes the default value of `html-tag-alist' as well, to add
id and class, so that's already taken care of.

>> +(define-skeleton html-div
>> +  "HTML div tag."
>> +  nil
>> +  "<div>" > \n _ \n "</div>" >)
>> +
>> +(define-skeleton html-span
>> +  "HTML span tag."
>> +  nil
>> +  "<span>" > _ "</span>")
>
> The skeleton commands look uncontroversial, though.

Cool.