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I've started taking an html course and I'm trying to figure out how to add functionality to emacs that exists in programs like atom or brackets. I've seen a few modes web-mode.el and nxhtml mentioned but they don't seem to have the same degree of completion.

Specifically for instance in either atom or brackets you can type for example <img and a context-popup will give you options for it such as "src= " "alt= " and the complete list of attributes etc. Is there similar autocomplete functionality somewhere?

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In stock Emacs, you can perform completion with M-TAB. If you want a popup to appear magically, then you probably want to install and enable the company package, available from GNU ELPA.

The quality/quantity of the completion candidates depends on the major mode you use. I personally use nxml-mode when I edit HTML files (which requires that I properly close my tags, but I find it a good idea anyway) which uses the XML schema to know the completions, so it's pretty good in my experience (but do install the html5-schema package from GNU ELPA, so you get an up-to-date schema, since the schema that comes with Emacs is for HTML4).

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  • We don't have any "smart" completion for html-mode in stock Emacs though, do we? – Dmitry Nov 19 '17 at 8:41
  • If you use nxml-mode there is. – Stefan Nov 19 '17 at 14:04
  • Even then, it seems to offer no completions in "normal" HTML files. Probably different for XHTML files, but there are not many of those left these days. – Dmitry Nov 19 '17 at 23:47
  • Not sure what you mean. I always edit my HTML files with nxml-mode (using the html5-schema GNU ELPA package). – Stefan Nov 20 '17 at 14:18
  • That's great (and should probably be mentioned in the answer). Too bad this doesn't help the cases where we have to use html-mode anyway (mhtml-mode, templating fragments, and so on). – Dmitry Nov 21 '17 at 11:36

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