At 7:30 AM -0400 2007/07/06, David Cortesi wrote:
I am editing a large (25K lines) HTML document -- it will become an
online etext of a book -- inspecting it and making numerous detail
changes in format and layout. It is most convenient to use the
built-in Preview, but even on a fast machine, re-rendering the page
after any edit takes almost a second -- during which I can't type or
scroll.
It's worse with Markdown, as that depends upon an
intermediate Perl script. I found it unusable on a 1.5GHz PBG4 for
tiny documents.
What hardware are you using?
Yes, I am quite well aware of the alternatives, I've been doing this
awhile. I could open the document in another browser. But then, to
see a change, I have to cmd-s, click in the other window, click the
reload button. Or, I could close the BBEdit preview window and set a
keystroke to re-open it. Either method is slower and has more mouse
moves than just using the built-in preview... which is great, it's
just a little annoying and could easily be fixed.
In the interim, I suggest a trip to Preferences:HTML Preview,
and set Auto-Save at the bottom. I just use Command-Control-P
compulsively, and it works -- not perfect but no mousing. Note that
Safari reloads the existing tab if it's changed, while Firefox opens
a new tab. In practice, Safari's substantially better for this.
Chris
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