Re: Need help customizing "TAB" for HTML

[Stefan Monnier]

> I am using emacs to create HTML documents and am getting frustrated with the
> default settings for TAB. When I type TAB to indent a line, it always seems
> to add at least two spaces more than the indent on the previous line. This
> occurs even when the previous line contains only one tag that does not have
> a matching closing tag. I would prefer that TAB would line up under the
> start of the previous line unless I have left a tag open. Ideally this would
> happen even if I manually adjust where the previous line is indented to.

I believe that the HTML mode in Emacs-CVS (expected to become Emacs-22) does
just that.


        Stefan