abbrex

This is a tool & module which expands HTML abbreviations into indented HTML markup.

It is meant to be used in editors to simplify writing HTML.

It contains a Lua module named abbrex and an executable script with the same name,
which can be used from the terminal (it uses the module).

It depends on LPeg.re which is used for abbreviation parsing.

Abbreviations

They are very similar to those in Emmet.

• # produces an id
• . appends a class
• {} translates into text
• > is used for nesting
• *N repeats the element (with everything it contains) N times

Installation

sudo luarocks install html-abbrex-dev-1.rockspec

This will install both the module and executable.

Usage

For the module, check and run the example.lua file.

The executable script has a -h argument option which gives a short description.
It works as a filter and uses pipes. You pipe the abbreviation from another command
and it poops out the generated HTML.