RE: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?
Title: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?
For those that use notepad and type
everything in by hand, theres a far better answer for you
Ultraedit (ultraedit.com). It is a simple text editor, but it has syntax
highlighting, can handle files as big as your whole hard drive, can edit
hex, you can cut and paste in columns as well as blocks of text. You can
search and replace over whole groups of files as well as folders. You can
search and replace on text or on hex as well, so for example you could replace
all the carriage returns or tabs with something else. I never use notepad for
anything any more. And it has a FTP function so you can upload your files
directly from ultraedit. Its ultraedit for me.
But for my normal use, I use dreamweaver
MX2004 usually in code view. It has tag completion and hints, so itll
tell me what the attributes are for any tag as I start to type it, itll
correct syntax errors if I want it to, and a click on the up arrow and the file
Im editing is loaded onto the site. I don't have to keep remembering
the passwords, addresses etc of all the sites Im working on.
And for CSS editing, I use topstyle. There
might be better ones, but I started using it a few years ago and never saw the
need to switch away.
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean M. Hall AKA Dante
Sent: Sunday, 6 June 2004 3:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WSG] Which editors do
you guys recommend?
I've been searching for a good editor (don't say BBEdit)
that has syntax highlighting and will not insert stuff (like if I type '(' in a
script tag the editor will insert a ')' right after it, I don't like that).
Until then it's note pad for me.
RE: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?
Hi Mike, You just saved me a heap of typing :-) Its Ditto to for me, plus a bit: ULtraEdit has to be one of the best text editors about DreamWeaver when doing designy type stuff HomeSite+ for pounding out code (my main task in life g) TopStyle for the CSS And responding to Dante's comment, both Dreamweaver and Homesite have the tag-completion you mentioned, and don't like, as well as the tag attribute hint functions that Mike mentioned and in both cases you can turn it off :-) -- Yours, Kym * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
RE: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?
G'day Kym, Anything to help a fellow traveller. Now if only I could find some contract work to employ my skills gainfully. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kym Kovan Sent: Sunday, 6 June 2004 4:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend? Hi Mike, You just saved me a heap of typing :-) Its Ditto to for me, plus a bit: ULtraEdit has to be one of the best text editors about DreamWeaver when doing designy type stuff HomeSite+ for pounding out code (my main task in life g) TopStyle for the CSS And responding to Dante's comment, both Dreamweaver and Homesite have the tag-completion you mentioned, and don't like, as well as the tag attribute hint functions that Mike mentioned and in both cases you can turn it off :-) -- Yours, Kym * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?
Recently Paul Scrivens (Whitespace) conducted a Non-scientific poll on HTML/CSS Editors which attracted over 120 responses and so probably constitutes one of the more compresnhensive discussions on this topic: http://www.9rules.com/whitespace/our_thoughts/nonscientific_poll_htmlcss_editors.php Steve Pilgrim of Rodent Regatta then posted a list of links to all the Editors mentioned in Scriv's poll and also ranked them based on the number of times they were mentioned in the comments: http://www.rodentregatta.com/archives/005771.php#005771 cheers dez * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?
Missing from the list is Context Programmers Editor. http://www.fixedsys.com/context/ With my as yet limited skill set, I still treat it pretty much like Notepad, but it has much, much more to it than just text editing. Context provides syntax highlighting for a great many programming and publishing languages, including html, xml and css (some plug-ins required). One of the many features that I really like (since I work on a page by page basis :-) is global find/replace. Multiple files can be opened at once, and changes can be effected on every open file in the editor in one go. The Save All/Close All feature is rather handy, too, and the program remembers your last save. If a file changes, or is deleted/renamed (through some other means) while it is open in editor, Context asks if you wish to reload it. So far I have been running it (for past six months, or so) in both Win 98 SE and XP without any problems. There are countless optional settings, project groups and recent files/projects. While I may not be familiar with any of the editors mentioned so far, I'd guess that it compares with many of them. Still, I do all my creation work in Notepad, but for all large-scale changes I turn to Context. While I may not do much justice in my rather sketchy description, I am of the opinion that this free editor is well worth taking a good look at. Roy - Original Message - From: afdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 3:01 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend? Recently Paul Scrivens (Whitespace) conducted a Non-scientific poll on HTML/CSS Editors which attracted over 120 responses and so probably constitutes one of the more compresnhensive discussions on this topic: http://www.9rules.com/whitespace/our_thoughts/nonscientific_poll_htmlcss_editors.php Steve Pilgrim of Rodent Regatta then posted a list of links to all the Editors mentioned in Scriv's poll and also ranked them based on the number of times they were mentioned in the comments: http://www.rodentregatta.com/archives/005771.php#005771 cheers dez * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
[WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?
Title: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?
I've been searching for a good editor (don't say BBEdit) that has syntax highlighting and will not insert stuff (like if I type '(' in a script tag the editor will insert a ')' right after it, I don't like that).
Until then it's note pad for me.
