Tip #18: Cleanup your HTML

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created:		February 25, 2001 19:59		complexity:		advanced
author:		[email protected]		as of Vim:		5.7

From Johannes Zellner on the vim list: You can use vim's makeprg and equalprg to clean up HTML. First download html tidy from http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/. Then use the following commands. vim6? exe 'setlocal equalprg=tidy -quiet -f '.&errorfile; setlocal makeprg=tidy -quiet -e % vim5? exe 'set equalprg=tidy -quiet -f '.&errorfile; set makeprg=tidy -quiet -e % At this point you can use make to clean up the full file or you can use = to clean up sections. :help = :help equalprg :help makeprg

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Additional Notes

[email protected], May 2, 2001 23:05

There is also Jtidy (Java implementation of tidy): http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtidy/

[email protected], January 11, 2002 5:01

Vim 6.0 comes with a Tidy compiler plugin for use in quickfix mode - $VIMRUNTIME/compiler/tidy.vim

[email protected], April 23, 2002 19:11

Any hints or tips on how to use the tidy.vim plugin?

[email protected], July 4, 2002 12:02

The current version of C Tidy is now at http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ ;

[email protected], July 4, 2002 12:03

Make that http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

[email protected], August 15, 2002 6:25

To use the included compiler script, run `:compiler tidy`. For more info, see :h quickfix and :h compiler-select. If you are using tidy.vim under WinNT (not sure about 9x), you need to set your shellpipe=2> or else Vim won't see the output from tidy. Apparently these Unix tools write output to stderr instead of stdout and Vim isn't configured by default to handle this situation.

[email protected], April 29, 2004 21:07

just start with vim using 6.2 (mandrake 10 .rpm) need add backslaces like in the tidy.vim file don't know but for me works just with the command: :setlocal makeprg=tidy\ -quiet\ -m\ -utf8\ % and then: :make

[email protected], March 27, 2005 5:00

vim 6.3 intends html very well when I put the line filetype plugin indent on into my personal ~/.vimrc (or ~\_vimrc) file. I also think that html-tidy is not able to indent only parts of a HTML file. Therefore, I do not use it as equalprg. I use html-tidy only in order to check if my HTML document is well formed. Therefore, I create a ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/html.vim (or ~\vimfiles\after\ftplugin\html.vim or an html.vim placed in the directory that appears last when typing :set runtimepath?) and put into it (among other things) the lines: setlocal makeprg=tidy\ -quiet\ -errors\ % setlocal errorformat=line\ %l\ column\ %v\ -\ %m I have found that the errorformat option must be adapted as shown in order to be able jump through the error list by means of :cn and :cp etc.

Anonymous, March 21, 2006 11:19

Tidy can be used for just a portion of the document by using the --show-body-only flag. For instance, on using vim6 on OSX the above command could be rewritten as: :exe 'setlocal equalprg=tidy\ -quiet\ -i\ --show-body-only\ true\ -f\ '.&errorfile; the -i indents, that is optional The rest of the tidy options can be found here: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/tidy/tidy/htmldoc/Attic/quickref.html?rev=1.15




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