>>#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)
David, trust a 'canny' Scot to figure this one out! :>) Thanks, you're
exactly right, that solved my problem.
>>#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.
I'll email them on this one.
>If it really bugs you, you can always do a global find and replace!
Yeah, but I've just been using the "Force tags to lower case" command for now.
>>#3 - the "Check HTML" syntax checker function seems completely screwy.
>
>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.
No doubt. But as Kathy G. pointed out, it seems to be taking the strict
approach of, for example, insisting that <FONT> tags be nested inside <P>
tags, etc., and that seems rather 'hard core' to me.
As I've only been using BBEdit for 2 weeks now, so far all the html files
I've opened in it were originally created in other editors. Upcoming work
will be created from scratch in BBEdit and I'll start using the Syntax
checker immediately to get used to it.
Thanks again David.
Barry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
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