Editing Django templates with Emacs

This page lists some helpers to edit django templates with the Emacs editor.

• ​django-mode
• ​django-html-mode
  • ​Improved version

django-mode

​I’ve started hacking on an editing mode for Django templates in Emacs. (Please note that this is the first time I ever do Emacs Lisp, and that what I currently have is nothing more than a start. If you can come up with fixes or improvements, these are much appreciated).

The most obvious benefit that it provides at the moment is syntax highlighting of variables and blocks.

It knows about the Django default tag names and uses a different coloring for comments. At the moment it is configured to automatically kick-in for files with extension .djhtml (I made it up that way, in order not to clash with other defaults one may have with .html files). Of course you can invoke it with M-x django-mode in any buffer.

You can get it here: ​http://unicoders.org/code/hacks/trunk/django-mode.el

Put it somewhere where Emacs can find it then add this line to your .emacs file:

(load "django-mode.el")

This is a sample screenshot of the results with the “Charcoal Black” ​color theme:

django-html-mode

There is another emacs django templete mode. It is derived mode from html(sgml).

• Elisp Code(.html) ​http://tsgates.cafe24.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/django-html-mode1.html
• Download(.el) ​http://tsgates.cafe24.com/elisp/django-html-mode.el
• Example(.html) ​http://tsgates.cafe24.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/django-html-mode-ex.html

Improved version

There is an updated and improved version of this mode on: ​https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~eopadoan/+junk/django-html-mode

• Updated the supported tags to current (django 1.0b3).
• Added auto-close command ( C-c ] ).

To get, run on a shell:

bzr branch lp:~eopadoan/+junk/django-html-mode

Yasnippet

If you are using ​Yasnippet, you can make quick the definition of basic classes for the administration site with the following yasnippet recipe:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# name: classadmin
# --
class ${1:ClassName}Admin (admin.ModelAdmin):
    pass
admin.site.register($1, $1Admin)

It will produce code like this:

class ExpenseAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    pass
admin.site.register(Expense, ExpenseAdmin)