What is your favorite editor?

**Hawk** · Jun 6th, 2002, 08:36 PM

I really like Textpad. I think a member by the name of Progressive recommended that one.

I also like Metapad. It is not as fancy as Textpad or Editplus but definitely more powerful than regular notepad.

For the last 10 minutes, I have been playing around with EditPlus. It can't compare files like Textpad. In textpad, once you save something, it disable the save icon to let you know that your file has already been saved.

Although it does not have a "block text" option, it can still block text by holding Alt and drag the mouse down. One feature I like about it is a built in browser.

I used to use Homesite. Hated!!! When you highlight and hit tab, instead of indenting inward, it deletes it.

When you point at the margin of a line, it does not highlight. You have to drag to highlight.

Codewright is another good product.

What editor do you like and what feature makes it so fabulous?

**The Hobo** · Jun 6th, 2002, 09:22 PM

I use HomeSite and Notepad 98% of the time, and the other 2% I use EditPlus.

Stiletto · Jun 7th, 2002, 02:26 AM

I use CuteHTML and an app i wrote named StilettoHTML. Both r0x

**Rick Bull** · Jun 7th, 2002, 05:19 AM

I use HTML-Kit it has a lot of greate features, including Tidy (the error checking and tiding thing) which shows you most of the errors in your code at a couple of clicks of a button.

**punkpie_uk** · Jun 7th, 2002, 06:00 AM

I use HTML-kit too, great piece of software

**JoshT** · Jun 7th, 2002, 10:58 AM

I use Homesite 5, Interdev, Komodo, and Emacs - in roughly that order.

**The Hobo** · Jun 7th, 2002, 11:49 AM

It frustrates me that Macromedia owns HomeSite now

scoutt · Jun 7th, 2002, 03:06 PM

if I had a dollar for everytime this was asked. I would be a millionarie and wouldn't share it with any of you

context is my preferred, but have been playing with htmlkit. too bad it doesn't have color hightlighting for php....

**The Hobo** · Jun 7th, 2002, 03:29 PM

If you ever become a millionare, you better hope you never have a daughter

scoutt · Jun 7th, 2002, 03:36 PM

oh no family is different. besides I alredy have a daughter. but she is only 10

, but I'm still not a millionarie

**Hawk** · Jun 7th, 2002, 03:41 PM

In VB, if you clicked on the margin, it highlights the entire line. If you press tab, it will indent a whole block of code inward.

Can HTML-Kit do that? When you highlight 100 lines of code and just press tab, everything gets indent inward. That is so much more convient than tabbing one a time.

**Rick Bull** · Jun 7th, 2002, 06:02 PM

Yeah you can do both in HTML-Kit

scoutt · Jun 7th, 2002, 07:48 PM

but if only it did "highlight" in php, it would be awesome.

**Hawk** · Jun 7th, 2002, 07:52 PM

Originally posted by Rick Bull
Yeah you can do both in HTML-Kit

Rick, are you sure? Is it like the way how VB does it? I downloaded HTML-Kit but can't seem to do that. When I highlight and hit tab, it just deletes everything.

**The Hobo** · Jun 7th, 2002, 10:41 PM

Originally posted by Hawk

Rick, are you sure? Is it like the way how VB does it? I downloaded HTML-Kit but can't seem to do that. When I highlight and hit tab, it just deletes everything.

Did you just highlight one line, or more than one?

**Rick Bull** · Jun 8th, 2002, 05:44 AM

Yeah he's right, I think you have to select more than one line. And as for the PHP thing, does it not have a plug-in or some sort of rules list for PHP?

**Rick Bull** · Jun 8th, 2002, 05:54 AM

I just found this: http://www.chamisplace.com/asp/hkp.asp?f=hkgeckopreview it's a gecko preview pane add in for HTML-Kit, but I can't download it

I wan't it so bad! Can anyone else download it?

**The Hobo** · Jun 8th, 2002, 09:12 AM

Yeah...I clicked where it said Download

**punkpie_uk** · Jun 8th, 2002, 11:25 AM

You can get plug ins for a lot of languages in HTML-Kit.

http://www.chami.com/html-kit

**Rick Bull** · Jun 8th, 2002, 12:58 PM

It's working now

I think maybe it was because I am using Opera and GetRight, I tried it in Mozilla and it's fine. And Hobo I did try clicking download, I'm not that stupid

**The Hobo** · Jun 8th, 2002, 05:01 PM

Originally posted by Rick Bull
And Hobo I did try clicking download, I'm not that stupid

Hey, ya never know with some people.

**Rick Bull** · Jun 9th, 2002, 02:58 PM

I downloaded it but it doesn't seem to work. I have Mozilla 1 (the "final" version, not a beta), and I registered the DLLs but it still doesn't seem to work. Has anyone else gotten it to work?

**ne0** · Jun 11th, 2002, 11:01 AM

other then notepad, you should try using dreamweaver 4 which has some great built in features, best html editor i know of.

**The Hobo** · Jun 11th, 2002, 11:02 AM

Originally posted by ne0
other then notepad, you should try using dreamweaver 4 which has some great built in features, best html editor i know of.

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