[thelist] customizing homesite

Joe Crawford jcrawford at avencom.com
Tue Feb 27 20:14:23 CST 2001


Matthew Haughey wrote:
> I've scoured the web, the help files, and various mailing list archives,
> and I can't find any info on hacking Allaire Homesite's default tag settings.
> 
> I'd like to be able to do a few things. Most important, when I hit control
> and enter, I'd like to have a <br /> tag inserted into documents instead of
> <br>. I'd like to auto insert /'s at the end of img tags when img src tags
> are inserted. I'd like to change control-b from inserting <b> to <strong>.
> 
> They have a lot of info on customizing the interface and creating new tags
> through their VTM language, and I see in my \homesite\extensions\ directory
> a html tag definition list, but I can't figure out how the tags are built
> up, based on those files. Most of the vtm stuff looks like help popup
> definitions. Anyone ever really hacked homesite before and would be willing
> to give some tips?

Sounds like you're entering the brave new world (well, a few months old
world) of xhtml -- this might be useful...

<watch what="for dreaded url-wrap">
http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=19492&Method=Full&Title=An%20XHTML%2DAware%20Editor&Cache=False
</watch>


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