[dice]

What do most of you use to edit HTML by hand? I like skEdit, see here. I've tried SubEthaEdit, Tag, Taco etc but I keep going back to skEdit, the only thing it doesn't have is live preview but I hear that is coming soon...

[Drizzt]

BBEdit here!

[dice]

Originally posted by Drizzt:
BBEdit here!

ah yes BBEdit, some of us can't afford it� should have asked what shareware/freeware HTML editor do people use

[Heady]

I use SubEthaEdit because it's simple and straightforward (and free for personal use). It has syntax coloring for many more languages than I use, and now (since version 2.0) it has auto-completion (works with HTML, CSS and PHP; I haven't tested with other languages). Since it doesn't support FTP uploads I use it in conjunction with lftp in the terminal (another simple and straightforward tool -- look for it in Fink).

I just checked skEdit's website, though, and it looks really good. I'll definitely try the demo.

-Heady

[mdc]

up until this morning it was subethaedit, i have been playing around with tag today and i like it, i have not decided if it will replace subethaedit or not. i just downloaded skedit now.

[theolein]

cat > something.html

[Chuckit]

Originally posted by dice:
ah yes BBEdit, some of us can't afford it� should have asked what shareware/freeware HTML editor do people use

I use TextEdit. Simple, free, and it can handle scripts other than English.

Of course, I don't do terribly extensive Web design, but I don't suppose I'd be going with freeware if I did.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by dice:
ah yes BBEdit, some of us can't afford it� should have asked what shareware/freeware HTML editor do people use

BBEdit Lite is free

[dtriska]

TextEdit.

[krove]

Originally posted by Heady:
I use SubEthaEdit because it's simple and straightforward (and free for personal use). It has syntax coloring for many more languages than I use, and now (since version 2.0) it has auto-completion (works with HTML, CSS and PHP; I haven't tested with other languages). Since it doesn't support FTP uploads I use it in conjunction with lftp in the terminal (another simple and straightforward tool -- look for it in Fink).

I just checked skEdit's website, though, and it looks really good. I'll definitely try the demo.

-Heady

Auto-completion - how?

[Heady]

Originally posted by krove:
Auto-completion - how?

SubEthaEdit uses Panther's built-in auto-completion engine, so it's activated by the system-wide keyboard shortcut, F5 (with option-escape as an equivalent). The feature remains rather obscure, though, partly because SubEthaEdit doesn't have a "Complete" menu item in its Edit menu like TextEdit does.

-Heady

[krove]

Nice, thanks!

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by theolein:
cat > something.html

I'm not quite that raw - Vim for me.

[wataru]

Taco HTML Edit for me.

[va3uxb]

I use SimpleText if I'm editing files on my own computer, VI if I'm working remotely on files on the servers.

[nooon]

SubEthaEdit here! It's free and it rules!

[drive-thru]

SubEthaEdit.
The live preview is great if you have a dual monitor setup.

[gheff]

jEdit

It does HTML, XML and Java pretty well. Is extensible, and most importantly for me right now, it's cross-platform. I use it at work on my PC and at home on my Mac.

[:dragonflypro:]

I am trying both Tag and HyperEdit right now.

But, slow as it may be�once you get used to DW "bloat" you get kind of spoiled.

T

[iOliverC]

Originally posted by dice:
What do most of you use to edit HTML by hand? I like skEdit, see here. I've tried SubEthaEdit, Tag, Taco etc but I keep going back to skEdit, the only thing it doesn't have is live preview but I hear that is coming soon...

Tag . But before Tag I used SubEthaEdit.

[strokemouth]

Pico!

Or if I need something that can do a little more, I use SubEthaEdit. I'll take a look at the other ones mentioned too, so thanks.

[albook]

TextEdit

[itai195]

If I had to use freeware I'd probably just use emacs, but I'm geeky that way. I can't possibly be the only one who uses emacs, can I? Come on you vi, vim, and pico fans... you know where the good stuff is.

[juanvaldes]

vim for on the server and subethaedit when I'm feeling lazy.

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by itai195:
Come on you vi, vim, and pico fans... you know where the good stuff is.

I'd use emacs.. but I don't want to be distracted by tetris while I'm doing work.

(all in good fun)

[itai195]

Originally posted by Earth Mk. II:
I'd use emacs.. but I don't want to be distracted by tetris while I'm doing work.

(all in good fun)

Of course!

Hey, I need to check my e-mail, post on usenet, compile, and play tetris while coding, I understand that isn't for everyone

[theolein]

Originally posted by gheff:
jEdit

It does HTML, XML and Java pretty well. Is extensible, and most importantly for me right now, it's cross-platform. I use it at work on my PC and at home on my Mac.

Bingo! Probably the editor with the most features around (has had code completion for while now, regexes since the beginning and code highlighting since the beginning as well), is cross platform, runs ok on any machine upwards of 600MHz and has a very active developer team.

Apart from that I still use vim very often (I've got it finally tuned just right with colours, macros etc) and actually do use cat > xxx.html for small files when I just want to test something.

Apart from which, knowing the basic vi commands saves you an enormous amount of hassle when you have to do quick fixes on html, php etc through ssh on a server somewhere. vi will always be there.