What's the most powerful html editor for web developer.

[Hongyi Zhao]

Hi all,

AFAIK, there're many html editors: BestAddress HTML Editor, HTML-mode
for Emacs, visual studio, and so on. Could someone please take a
comparison among all of the available html editors for web developer
and recommend us the most powerful of them?

 

[rf]

Hi all,

AFAIK, there're many html editors: BestAddress HTML Editor, HTML-mode
for Emacs, visual studio, and so on. Could someone please take a
comparison among all of the available html editors for web developer
and recommend us the most powerful of them?

That would be a lot of work

 

[richard]

Hi all,

AFAIK, there're many html editors: BestAddress HTML Editor, HTML-mode
for Emacs, visual studio, and so on. Could someone please take a
comparison among all of the available html editors for web developer
and recommend us the most powerful of them?

Notepad.
It never tells you you can't do this or that.

 

[Raymond Schmit]

Notepad.
It never tells you you can't do this or that.

For me, it's Notepad++ because he is able to do a replace string on a
group of files. Pretty usefull when you want a same change on all
pages of your website. (Anyway, i used more often PFE)

 

[Joy Beeson]

PC-Write.

 

[Ari Heino]

wayne kirjoitti seuraavasti:

gedit color formats your text when a file has an
html extension.

Which every reasonable text editor does. For zillion of languages.
Clip libraries are handy. You can download them to TextPad at least. You
can double click a text clip from the library and it will paste into
your code. Css clip libraries with all possible attributes are
especially nice.

 

[Peter Anderson]

wayne kirjoitti seuraavasti:

Which every reasonable text editor does. For zillion of languages.
Clip libraries are handy. You can download them to TextPad at least. You
can double click a text clip from the library and it will paste into
your code. Css clip libraries with all possible attributes are
especially nice.

TextPad and EditPlus ( http://www.editplus.com/index.html ) are very
similar; both have a great feature called Clip Libraries (EditPlus
terminology) that work much the same way and are equally easy to create.

Clip Libraries are composed of clips of text that appear in a panel to
the left of the main editor window. Clips can be for any purpose you
choose; I have one called "normal.html" which is a pun on Microsoft
Word's "normal.doc" and which I use for all my word processing needs (I
create HTML documents rather than proprietary file formats). The
following is an excerpt from "normal.html":

#T=Non-breaking space
 
#T=… Ellipses
…
....
#T=Comment
<!-- ^! -->
#T=Paragraph
<p>^!</p>
#T=Line break
<br>
#T=Heading 1
<h1>^!</h1>
....
#T=Horizontal Rule
<hr>
#T=Page break (before)
style="page-break-before: always;"
....
#T=Ordered list
<ol>
<li>^!</li>
<li></li>
</ol>

#T= is a clip heading; double clicking on a clip heading inserts the
following text into the editor window at the current cursor position.

^! is the cursor position AFTER the clip has been inserted.

Clip Libraries make HTML and CSS coding very productive. I also use
Clip Libraries for Python, PHP and ooRexx coding.

These are VERY GOOD text editors (but they are not free).

Regards,
Peter
--
*Peter Anderson*
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to
conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the
introduction of a new order of things—Niccolo Machiavelli, /The Prince/,
ch. 6

 

[richard]

For me, it's Notepad++ because he is able to do a replace string on a
group of files. Pretty usefull when you want a same change on all
pages of your website. (Anyway, i used more often PFE)

Notetab can do the same thing.

 

[Nik Coughlin]

Notetab can do the same thing.

But Notepad++ is just so much nicer to use

 

[David Segall]

Hi all,

AFAIK, there're many html editors: BestAddress HTML Editor, HTML-mode
for Emacs, visual studio, and so on. Could someone please take a
comparison among all of the available html editors for web developer
and recommend us the most powerful of them?

No one can do that. First there is a problem with defining an HTML
editor. There are contributors to this group who believe that any text
editor is an HTML editor.

Others, like me, believe that an HTML editor should "understand" HTML
and CSS and present different views of a page on demand. That is, they
should allow you to alter the code in the code view, add or change
visual elements in the WYSIWYG view and add or change properties in
the CSS view.

Between those are the editors that can just colour code the source or
guess what elements you might want next and provide an explanation of
what the element does.

Even if you manage to define an "HTML editor" no one can use the
latest version of all the qualified candidates in order to provide you
with the "most powerful". I have often thought that a suitably
structured Wiki that includes a comparative list of features would a
valuable tool.

Oh, and the answer to your underlying question is Dreamweaver

 

[Ari Heino]

Peter Anderson kirjoitti seuraavasti:

TextPad and EditPlus ( http://www.editplus.com/index.html ) are very
similar;

These are VERY GOOD text editors (but they are not free).

You can still use at least TextPad for free. It reminds you politely
that you're welcome to try the program before you buy it blah blah blah.

 

[Tim Greer]

Hi all,

AFAIK, there're many html editors: BestAddress HTML Editor, HTML-mode
for Emacs, visual studio, and so on. Could someone please take a
comparison among all of the available html editors for web developer
and recommend us the most powerful of them?

I've used some HTML editors way back, but even back in the early 90s
when I was first doing HTML pages, and as these editors came along, I
always didn't like what they were doing and inevitably ended up using
Notepad on Windows (if I was using Windows) or something like vi in
Linux or FreeBSD. I suppose the question depends on what features you
want in an editor, but nothing is more powerful than an editor that
won't force or restrict what you do.

I don't think any HTML editing program that's made specifically for this
(FP, DW, etc.) will ever have all of the current tags and emements and
formatting you'd maybe want to use, so you want to use something
without any limits or something that likely tries to insert or create
the HTML for you. So, I'd use vi or vim, or emacs, or nano/pico, or
joe/jed or somethig like that. Some og these are ran in the command
line, but some will run on the GUI and run on all types of platforms
(like Vim does).

So, for the most portable that I'm personally aware of, I'd suggest Vim.

http://www.vim.org/

 

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2009-02-28, Tim Greer wrote:
....

So, for the most portable that I'm personally aware of, I'd suggest Vim.

GNU emacs will also run on most platforms, and is much more
friendly than vim.

 

[Tim Greer]

On 2009-02-28, Tim Greer wrote:
...

GNU emacs will also run on most platforms, and is much more
friendly than vim.

Sure, emacs is a good choice, too. I prefer vi or vim over emacs, but
it's probably just because I use it so much more.