Emacs Support for the Slim Template Language
I’m mostly a Ruby on Rails developer these days and as such I’m pretty fond of the Slim template language. I’ve always hated HTML + ERB, since that evil duo encourages all sorts of ever practices and recently I’ve adopted Slim as a replacement for my long time favourite ERB alternative - Haml.
I won’t discuss here the shortcomings of Haml vs Slim, but I’ll share
with you the big advantage Haml has over Slim (for Emacs users at
least) - it has a pretty nice major editing mode for Emacs. Slim’s
Emacs support on the other hand is rather iffy and is presently mostly
based on haml-mode
. That will hopefully change soon, since recently
I’ve become a co-maintainer of
slim-mode and I plan to improve
it as much as I can (currently I’m mostly working on precise
font-locking). Any help from interested parties is, naturally, most
welcome. I very much doubt that me and
Daniel Mendler are the only two people
dreaming of great Slim experience in Emacs.
Let us together eliminate that big Haml advantage.