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Subject: psgml-mode as default html mode?
From: Shane Holder <holder@rsn.hp.com>
Date: 02 Apr 1997 13:21:11 -0600
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I may be starting a long discussion here, but this group seems used to 
that.  :)

    I'm not sure psgml-mode should be the default mode for editing html
files.

    Psgml has lots of really neat features, but it's *really* complex.
I've spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out how to insert a
table, without success.  The standard C-h b and search for table
doesn't come up with any answers.  Nothing in the menus says anything
about how to insert a table.  I'm sure it's possible to change some
DTD thingy and get tables, but I don't know squat about DTD, I'm going
to learn, because it seems to be pretty cool, and I like the way
psgml-mode works, but for a novice it's a real headache.
    The documentation isn't really helpful either.  The docs seem to
make the assumption that the user is already very familiar with PSGML
and DTD stuff and refers the user to another document for a primer.
Not what I wanted to see when all I wanted to do was insert a
table. :)

    I think hm--html-mode would be a better choice for a default html
mode.

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Shane Holder                                 e-mail: holder@rsn.hp.com
Hewlett Packard                               phone:     (214)497-4182
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Richardson, TX 75083

