Making a table is so much easier with the mouse

With a decent editor1, this is simply not true. A few lines of lisp in your configuration go a *long* way toward reducing the amount of typing you have to do. In cperl-mode (with my custom enhancements in the hook), I hit one keystroke for my insert-tag function, type in table, hit Enter, and the following is inserted:

   <table width=\"100%\"><thead>
     <tr><th></th></tr>
   </thead><tbody>
     <tr><td></td></tr>
   </tbody></table>

[download]
And it leaves my cursor positioned inside the th. Similar shortcuts exist for other common tasks. My fingers never have to leave the keyboard.

1 -- By <q>a decent editor</q> I of course mean Emacs, but this is not intended to start an editor war; feel free to customise your editor of choice in a similar fashion, if it provides the facilities for you to do so.
$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/

[download]

In reply to Re: 2Re: a Couple of questions! by jonadab
in thread a Couple of questions! by Nik

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.