Hello Craig,
you are not alone, I am more the text editors type, too. I used
Notepad for quite awhile until I ran into Nick Bradbury in a
message board. He just released his Homesite X, free HTML-Text
editor with nice little features like the snippets and a checker to
make sure you closed the tags:-)) I kind liked that, it was for
free and Nick did great work in supporting his tool. He sold it to
Allaire, at Version 2.0 or so because it was so popular and he
couldn't keep up with support and marketing...
I sort of grew up with Homesite until 4.0 and then I switched to CF when I started
using
some CFML. I felt at home (no wonder)at once.
In the beginning of web page creation I tried different tools like HotDog, which was
very slow,
and also Netscape Gold, I always had to go over the code again and
again. Even in those days when HTML was simpler, they already
messed it up, those WYSIWYG editors;-)) Frontpage was the worst.
(and probably is?)
In between I learned some Perl and used MuliEdit which is, very
mighty, when you need it to be mighty and very tiny, when you need
it to be tiny. Highly customizable.
Craig, you sound that you wouldn't approve that people are listening
to some music during there work:-)) I am just listening to
radio from my home country via the inter now and then, but only
when I am just doing some updating or reviewing..
Well, as I said your are not totally alone. I kind a like it
when fellow webpage creators call me a dinosaur. Some of them are
having a hard time now finding their way around CF Studio...
What ever, Craig, hopefully we are not off-topic to much..
Birgit
www.naples.net
Thursday, April 13, 2000, 11:46:47 AM, you wrote:
CMR> Here's the deal, i'm so used to the keyboard mentality, that i just want to
CMR> quick in and out...
CMR> I do use other tools, to help with the database stuff like SQL Navigator 3,
CMR> Benthic's Golden32....
CMR> I just like the olde KISS standard of not using tools that do or have more
CMR> than I really need.
CMR> When I first got started in CF, Studio just took up more memory and time to
CMR> learn, than just using a test editor to plug away and type and peck and hack
CMR> at the coding...
CMR> Now I'm not trying to say my approach is superior or meant for
CMR> everyone...But I have noticed a Conformist Attitude towards everyone wanting
CMR> to be a like....
CMR> I really dont't care to do things the way everyone else does...
CMR> I like collecting little tools to do exactly and no more than what I need
CMR> them to do...I dislike the feeling that studio is to the coding, what
CMR> frontpage is to the web, a kludge application to help people do the code for
CMR> them...
CMR> I know that isn't true, but it feels like it...After having worked in Tech
CMR> Support, and so many people who use Front Page demanded results without
CMR> wanting to learn about how to get that results....
CMR> This may be totally inaccurate as to why people use it...
CMR> CF Studio just feels like too much of a tool...I like simpler tools...
CMR> This isn't a competition, but I was majorly curious as to if I was alone or
CMR> not...in being a TextPad/ Text Editor user...
CMR> It looks like I am to some extant...and that's okay...
CMR> Are there any other tools people use other than studio for coding? like SQL
CMR> Helpers and so on?
CMR> Another trend I've noticed is that people who code like to listen to winamp
CMR> or other music over the internet while working....
CMR> What do you do?
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