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Easier way to edit a splitted long string
From: |
Lele Gaifax |
Subject: |
Easier way to edit a splitted long string |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:55:16 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi all,
I'm looking for an easier way to edit a "template", that is a long
string representing a "prototype" text used to generate an HTML page,
contained in JavaScript source.
As an brief example, consider the following piece of code:
{
xtype: 'container',
itemId: 'header',
tpl: [
'<div class="header">',
' <div class="top">',
' <div class="profession">{profession}</div>',
' <span class="fullname">{fullname}</span>',
' <span class="location">{city} — {country}</span>',
' <span class="state">{state_label}</span>',
' </div>',
'</div>'
],
layout: {
type: 'hbox'
}
},
As you can see, the template is just a JS array of strings, one for each
line: before use, all the strings are "joined" (that is, concatenated)
together into a single big one.
As you may imagine, editing the template as is is very boring!
Today, chatting with a friend about it, I had a flashback about some
Emacs mode I used very long ago which I'm not able to find: it allowed
to edit long C comments in a recursive edit, "stripping" away the "box"
decoration (or just the start-comment and end-comment markers) as well
as the text indentation on enter, and restoring the same kind of
decoration on exit.
Applied to my case, that would mean entering into a recursive edit
buffer with the following content:
<div class="header">
<div class="top">
<div class="profession">{profession}</div>
<span class="fullname">{fullname}</span>
<span class="location">{city} — {country}</span>
<span class="state">{state_label}</span>
</div>
</div>
It does not seem so difficult to achieve (even for an elisp newbie as I
am) and I could give it a try, but I wonder if something similar already
exists.
Any hint will be very appreciated,
thanks a lot,
bye, lele.
--
nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri
real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia.
lele@metapensiero.it | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929.
- Easier way to edit a splitted long string,
Lele Gaifax <=