My Django Emacs

Uniquify

When you have several buffers with same file name, like views.py, it is really boring to switch between views.py<3>, views.py<4>. With Uniquify, buffer names could be prefixed with parent directory, like admin/views.py, forms/views.py.

(require 'uniquify)
(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward)

Ido Mode

There is many modes other modes like Ido. I found it very pleasant to load and switch buffers, in conjunction with Uniquify.

(require 'ido)
(ido-mode t)

Emacs 23

Not released yes (perhaps 2009 ?), but I use emacs-snapshot on my debian, to have anti-aliased rendering.

deb http://emacs.orebokech.com lenny main

I have activated bold face for keywords and italics for comments

(set-face-bold-p 'font-lock-keyword-face t)
(set-face-italic-p 'font-lock-comment-face t)

JavaScript

I like Js2Mode, with syntax error highliting.

Downlad it and append these lines in your .emacs

(autoload 'js2-mode "js2" nil t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.js$" . js2-mode))

Editing Templates

See http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Emacs . I personnaly use Django Html Mode, derived from html-mode : auto-indentation, smart closing html and django tags.

(autoload 'django-html-mode "django-html-mode")
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.[sx]?html?\\'" . django-html-mode))

Some functions

These two functions are very useful if you have to tag texts for gettext translation. Select your text region in python or html and use the shortcuts below.

(defun django-insert-trans (from to &optional buffer)
 (interactive "*r")
 (save-excursion
   (save-restriction
     (narrow-to-region from to)
     (goto-char from)
     (iso-iso2sgml from to)
     (insert "{% trans \"")
     (goto-char (point-max))
     (insert "\" %}")
     (point-max))))
(defun django-insert-transpy (from to &optional buffer)
 (interactive "*r")
 (save-excursion
   (save-restriction
     (narrow-to-region from to)
     (goto-char from)
     (iso-iso2sgml from to)
     (insert "_(")
     (goto-char (point-max))
     (insert ")")
     (point-max))))
(add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook
        (lambda ()
          (local-set-key "\C-c\C-g" 'django-insert-trans)
          (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
          ))
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
        '(lambda ()
           (outline-minor-mode 1)
           (setq
            tab-width 4
            python-indent 4
            outline-regexp py-outline-regexp
            outline-level 'py-outline-level)
           (local-set-key "\C-c\C-t" 'django-insert-transpy)
           )