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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Mon 29 Nov 2004 09:57 PM (UTC) |
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| | Hi everybody... not quite a programming question, but what HTML editors do you all use? I'm looking for something - preferably free/open-source (can't find my FrontPage CDs, d'oh) - that can handle WYSIWYG editing. Just wondering if people had any recommendations. Thanks. :) |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone
http://david.the-haleys.org | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Flannel
USA (1,230 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Mon 29 Nov 2004 10:41 PM (UTC) Amended on Mon 29 Nov 2004 10:53 PM (UTC) by Flannel
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| Message
| Arachnophilia.
It's written in Java, Careware (freeware), fully customisable, very fully.
It's not really WYSIWYG (even though its listed on many sites as one... go figure), but it does make everything pretty easy, even if you don't know much about HTML.
It even includes an FTP service (which only updates files you've changed).
It isn't strictly a HTML editor, it does other things pretty well.
Check it out, it may or may not be what youre looking for, but its definately worth a look.
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
It might take some getting used to, but the help file is reasonable.
Edit:
For other text editors, I use PFE (programmers file editor, google it, it doesn't have a website), or SciTE, depending on what I need. |
~Flannel
Messiah of Rose
Eternity's Trials.
Clones are people two. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Zeno
USA (2,871 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Mon 29 Nov 2004 10:49 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | I have Dreamweaver, but I use UltraEdit most of the time. I do HTML by hand (write all the code myself, as of I know it like the back of my hand) and I just find UltraEdit much more useful than Notepad. |
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #3 on Mon 29 Nov 2004 10:58 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| Arachnophilia looks like a nice program but not quite what I'm looking for. Knowing HTML isn't my problem at all, in fact I'm quite comfortable with it and am looking to embed PHP into it. My main problem is in sketching out designs very rapidly, and doing that in HTML is a bother. I'm half-tempted to just download a trial copy of Dreamweaver (which I prefer over FrontPage anyhow) and doing my sketching, and then working with the source from there. :-)
As a text editor, I almost always use gVim for Windows. After all: real coders use Vi! *grin* |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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Legends of the Darkstone
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| Posted by
| Zhamel
USA (67 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #4 on Tue 30 Nov 2004 05:57 AM (UTC) Amended on Tue 30 Nov 2004 06:00 AM (UTC) by Zhamel
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| I use Crimson Editor, www.crimsoneditor.com, and I've enjoyed it so far. It has syntax highlighting and if you start using PHP, or C/C++, it will help you place brackets properly so you can more easily read your code. There is also an entire section on the website to pick which languages you want it to have syntax highlighting for. Real easy to install them.
Best thing about it, is that it's free (not open source).
This is the feature this from the website:
Quote:
Edit multiple documents
- switch between documents using file selection tab.
- Ctrl+Tab brings the last accessed document to topmost.
- support window splitter to see different parts of a document.
Syntax highlighting
- configurable via custom syntax files.
- preconfigured for more than 100 computer languages.
Multi-level undo / redo
- all editing actions are recorded from the opening of a file.
- any document always can be undone to it's initial contents.
- unlimited undo and redo buffers.
Project management
- manage group of related files into one project.
- remote files also can be included in a project.
Directory tree view window
- click to open documents.
- filter to display only selected file class.
Find & Replace
- replace specified text one by one, or as a whole.
- support regular expression.
Column mode editing
- copy and paste rectangular selections.
- switch between column mode and line mode. (Alt+C)
Natural word wrapping
- word wrapping does not affect syntax highlighting.
- configurable wrapping indentation. (easer to understand the syntax)
Spell checker
- around 100000 words were added in the dictionary.
- users can register new words in their own dictionary. (InstallDir/user.dic)
User tools and macros
- execute external programs with proper arguments.
- compile, execute and test your code.
- ease your fingers with key stroke recording. (record & replay)
Edit remote files directly using built-in FTP client
- open, edit, and save documents in remote FTP servers.
- save account information (encoded) for automatic logon.
Print & Print preview
- configurable page header and footer.
- print with line numbers.
- print with syntax highlighting. (used in color printer)
- true type font selection for printer.
Other useful features
support Unicode & UTF-8 encoding, drag & drop text editing,
single instance / multiple instances, ability to detect changed files,
bookmark & go to, highlight active line, highlight matching pairs,
multi-byte support with integrated IME (for eastern languages),
auto indent, wheel mouse support, copy & paste, line numbers,
configurable line spacing, option to save files in Unix format. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #5 on Tue 30 Nov 2004 06:37 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | SciTE has syntax colouring, but is not WYSIWYG. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #6 on Tue 30 Nov 2004 06:51 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| I used to use Crimson Editor, until I discovered that gVim worked on Windows. Then I was a happy camper. :-) But CE is definitely a good program.
Never tried SciTE but have heard excellent things about it.
I've discovered that the OpenOffice text editor can handle HTML files, but it doesn't seem to be able to load external stylesheets, which is somewhat of a bummer. Still, it does serve the purpose of being able to rapidly sketch out designs and quickly get a feel for what they look like.
Now, all I have to do is finish up all my work so that I can start playing with designs. :-) |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone
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