On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 09:59, Chris Frederick wrote: > I highly recommend learning Regular Expresions. I was getting pretty > good with vim with web development, but like you said, sometimes working > with tables by hand takes forever. But now that I know Regular > Expresions, I see tables for what they are, patterns. And HTML is > extremely "RegEx frendly", the whole language is nothing but patterns of > tags. For a real quick example, it only takes one command in vim to > right align all the cells with numeric data in them > (:s/<td>\(\d\+\)<\/td>/<td align=right>\1<\/td>/g). If you're going to > be making large changes with HTML, or other simalar files (XML is even > easier yet), a good grasp on Regular Expresions is a HUGE help. Thanks for all of your suggestions. I do need to learn more about regex's (doesn't everybody). I've never used them within vi, I muddle though them in perl enough you'd think they would be second nature by now. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 07:38, The Wandering Dru wrote: > Mozilla's Composer can be told to "leave my code the hell > alone!" Check out the preferences. I'll do that. It's maddening when the editor breaks your code. /I don't what my "&" replaced with "&"/ On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:08, Chad Walstrom wrote: > Use tidy. > > I've been starting by first laying out my tables and stuff with the > > mozilla composer then doing everything else in vi. any suggestions? > > BINGO! You've found the answer! Add tidy to your toolbox and start > playing with stylesheets. I'll give tidy a try, thanks! http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ -- Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list