jm3/krunk-emacs

Krunk: X/Emacs mode for editing & debugging JSP

Copyleft July 2000, John Manoogian III (@jm3)

Overview:

A JSP (compiled server-side Java views plus HTML + JS) editing mode, Krunk provides a power-editor's toolkit approach to JSP - no fluff, with quick access to common stuff. All of krunk's major commands are accessible from the Krunk menu -- click your 3rd mouse button to activate it.

Features:

In-line JSP compilation
A view-compiled-servlet option when editing JSP source
Step forward/backward through page compilation errors
Completion of Java types, common HTML tags, and JSP primitives like request.get...(), import declarations, etc.
Popup menu for inserting code skeletons for pages, tables, and script blocks.

Syntax highlighting (via font-lock) of:

Java types
JSP declarations
JSP expression tags
HTML tags (needs some work)
Java line comments
cvs/rcs $Id: ident strings

Note that HTML attributes are NOT highlighted; that tends to make for a "confetti code" appearance, which I can do without.

Highlights:

Requires no server, no special Java Classpath-monkeying, databases, or other JDKs.

History:

krunk began as a bastard child of several more complex modes, including html-mode, perl-mode, and whatever else looked promising. The first features were the font-locking regexps for syntax-coloring and lightning completion tables for tab completion. After using it daily for a few weeks, the tab-key binding proved to be too disorienting, and so was re-mapped to ctl-c tab.

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