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

django-html-mumamo-mode

MUltiple MAjor MOde is an extension for Emacs that allows one buffer to use multiple modes for different stretches of text. It's bundled with ​nXhtml, and now includes a django-html-mumamo-mode for django templates. This uses django-mode from django-mode.el above for the django parts and html-mode for the html parts. (In addition it uses css-mode for css parts etc.)

Unfortunately django-mode.el does not include any functions for indenting django code. Therefor django-html-mumamo-mode can not do indentation based on the django parts. If someone is interested in contributing elisp code for this then please contact me so we can integrate it the same way as for eRuby. -- Lennart B (you can find my email address in the nXhtml source files)

Yasnippet

If you are using ​Yasnippet, you can get the ​django-mode with many useful snippets. To get, run on a shell:

bzr branch lp:django-mode

And append something like that:

(load "~/Dropbox/django-mode/django-mode.el")
(yas/load-directory "~/Dropbox/django-mode/snippets")

to your .emacs.