5.16.1 HTML Install

Simplified Install

If Casual is installed using package-install, then you can use casual-init to setup support for HTML.

By default, casual-init will setup support for HTML via the hook function casual-html-init which is included in the customizable variable casual-init-hook.

Use the command customize-variable on casual-init-hook to control inclusion of casual-html-init via a checkbox interface.

Refer to the Simplified Install (Install) section for more detail on customizing casual-init.

Casual makes opinionated decisions on the keybindings used in its menus. Such opinions are extended from said menus to the keymap(s) of a particular mode. For HTML, this can be controlled via the customizable variable casual-html-add-extra-keybindings (default t).

Hook Install

Users who want a more granular install of Casual modules can invoke the hook function of interest in their Emacs initialization file.

(casual-html-init)

Manual Install

For users who have manually installed Casual outside of package-install, the following guidance is offered.

The primary interface for Casual HTML is the Transient menu casual-html-tmenu. It is autoloaded ((elisp)Autoload) so if Casual is installed via package-install ((emacs)Package Installation) then casual-html-tmenu can be invoked via execute-extended-command (M-x) without need for modifying your Emacs initialization file.

That said, Casual is designed with the intent of using a common (key)binding across multiple modes to lower cognitive load. This document uses the binding M-m for this purpose, but can be changed to user preference.

There are many ways to configure this binding. Shown below is a straightforward implementation:

(require 'casual-html) ; load all dependencies including `mhtml-mode'
(keymap-set html-mode-map "M-m" #'casual-html-tmenu)

If lazy loading of the html package is desired then try using eval-after-load:

(eval-after-load 'mhtml-mode
  (keymap-set html-mode-map "M-m" #'casual-html-tmenu))

If HTML Tree-sitter support is enabled, use the keymap html-ts-mode-map in place of html-mode-map.

Additional Bindings

It is convenient to also bind casual-html-tags-tmenu as well.

(keymap-set html-mode-map "C-c m" #'casual-html-tags-tmenu)