I've been using BBEdit for a while now and though I'm no expert the
following comments may help
>
>#1 - In Edit / Preferences / Editor, I have "Soft Wrap Text" checked and
>"Wrap to Window Width" checked. But BBEdit won't do it. Files I open just
>go right off the right side of the window. I've played with the settings,
>and yes I'm clicking "Save" before exiting the Preferences window. Now,
>these are HTML files that I created on my PC and have since opened,
>modified and saved in BBEdit. Is it perhaps because I did not create these
>files from scratch in BBEdit, but imported them in from the PC that
>explains why it won't wrap the lines in these files?
In the Filing Preferences dialogue box there is another option Do Not
Wrap Source Files. In the Languages Preference dialogue box you will find
a list a languages and their assocaited suffixes (which includes .htm and
.html.) Files with these suffixes are regarded as source files and
wrapping is applied (or not) as specified under Filing. I think you will
find that solves the problem. You can also toggle wrapping on and off
using the icons that (optionally) appear at the top of each document
which can be useful. (See #3 below)
>
>#2 - I prefer my HTML tags lower case. Of course, BBEdit has a Preferences
>setting for HTML Tags to be lower case. I have that selected. All the tags
>I have it insert are lower case _except_ the <BR> tag: it always comes in
>upper case! Really a trivial thing to be sure, but I find it annoying :>)
>This seems like a bug to me.
Not noticed this one before - (I've set my tags to upper case) - but you
might like to either email support @barebones.com (their support is
excellent,) or join their BBEdit-Talk mailing list.
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If it really bugs you, you can always do a global find and replace!
>
>#3 - the "Check HTML" syntax checker function seems completely screwy. It
>gives me all sorts of errors like "<TR> not allowed in content of <FONT>"
>and "<HTML> not allowed in content of <FONT>" when I know there is nothing
>wrong. In fact the error messages don't even make sense. The latter for
>example, it points to the final tag in the document, which as usual is
></html> as having a problem. Hell, there are no tags after it? What could
>be wrong? Almost all the "errors" it picks up are bogus or nonsensical.
I think you will find that if you look more closely you will find an
error somewhere - usually connected with missing or incorrectly nested
tags somewhere in the document. Sometimes it points to the end of the
document even though the error occurs earlier in the documnet (for
example if it can't find the <HEAD> tag.) Remember that the line numbers
reported refer to unwrapped lines - not the line numbers when wrapping is
turned on.
But I've never found an instance where BBEdit incorrectly reported
problems when in fact there were none in the document. However you will
find that multiple errors can arise from a single html error (- eg if
closing tags are omit.) If you fix that one problem then all the other
problems will disappear. Stick with it and you'll find it becomes easier
to interpret the error messages.
>
>Otherwise it's a hell of an HTML editor, and I've barely scratched the
>surface of what it can do.
Agreed!
David Bell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alpha Information Services
Web Site Design and Internet Consultancy
Glasgow
Scotland
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