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I don't think this is all that helpful. If you use a moderately-decent text editor, it probably has a closing feature, and an autoindent feature. If you're wri

I don't think this is all that helpful. If you use a moderately-decent text editor, it probably has a closing feature, and an autoindent feature. If you're writing a new tag in emacs, you just need to write the opening tag, then press "C-c /", and it will close it for you. If you have a syntax error of this magnitude, the autoindenter will also help you realize. Just select the region (or the whole file) and press tab, see where the indentation stops making sense, and follow back to the opening tag by column. There are heavy-handed approaches to this, but I find that default-configured emacs with these two tricks can reduce your error rate to effectively zero, without requiring you to learn a new tool just for [X][H]TML. I say "just" for HTML having spent about half of my working hours in HTML for two years full time. I think this is enough.

tyingq 10y ago
As you mention, a decent text editor solves large parts of this. I have had occasions where I needed something more. When that's the case, tidy-html5[1] + running a diff afterwards has been sufficient. [1]http://www.html-tidy.org/documentation/ http://www.html-tidy.org/documentation/
sakamies 10y ago
Hi! Article aithor here. Emmet is a great plugin that has tag matching and all kinds of navigation/editing shortcuts too. Like those emacs shortcuts, it does reduce error rates and speed up editing signifigantly, at least for me, but I'm more interested in exactly a heavy handed approach. I'd like an app/plugin/whatever that makes it impossible to make many types of mistakes, even if it restricts what I can do. I code html every day (and I do love it), but I'm a terrible and lazy typist. I make typos and mistakes constantly, so I'll take all the help I can get. So I'm trying to make something that will solve my specific woes in html/css development and I'm hoping someone else finds it useful too.

tyingq 10y ago

As you mention, a decent text editor solves large parts of this. I have had occasions where I needed something more. When that's the case, tidy-html5[1] + running a diff afterwards has been sufficient. [1]http://www.html-tidy.org/documentation/ http://www.html-tidy.org/documentation/

sakamies 10y ago

Hi! Article aithor here. Emmet is a great plugin that has tag matching and all kinds of navigation/editing shortcuts too. Like those emacs shortcuts, it does reduce error rates and speed up editing signifigantly, at least for me, but I'm more interested in exactly a heavy handed approach. I'd like an app/plugin/whatever that makes it impossible to make many types of mistakes, even if it restricts what I can do. I code html every day (and I do love it), but I'm a terrible and lazy typist. I make typos and mistakes constantly, so I'll take all the help I can get. So I'm trying to make something that will solve my specific woes in html/css development and I'm hoping someone else finds it useful too.