Technitribe » XML http://blog.peopleareducks.com not at all like a diatribe Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:00:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Enabling automatic slash completion in nXML-Mode http://blog.peopleareducks.com/2009/08/13/enabling-automatic-slash-completion-in-nxml-mode/ http://blog.peopleareducks.com/2009/08/13/enabling-automatic-slash-completion-in-nxml-mode/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:38:46 +0000 tbielawa http://blog.peopleareducks.com/?p=12 I do a lot of DocBook XML editing, either at my job or at home. Because of that I’ve built up a pretty customized .emacs file. Every so often I meet another person whose also found themselves having to edit a bunch of XML. The most fantastic thing about nXML mode I think is the automatic slash completion feature. It works like this: If I have an open element, say I’ve started an <xref>, you can configure nXML mode such that upon typing the closing </ characters it will complete that sequence for you. I can just never remember how to set that option in emacs. So today I’m taking the time to finally document that procedure.

  1. Enter nxml-mode
  2. M-x customize-apropos
  3. nxml-slash
  4. Press Toggle on
  5. Optionally: select “Save for future sessions”

For even more fun, use the C-c C-f macro which will auto complete your current block, regardless of your position inside of it. For additional references, I invite you to check out the docs NM Tech has posted on nXML-Mode.

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