Tag completion & Linux text editors

Have you tried using Textile[1]? It's real simple to learn and makes markup a breeze. It also converts some punctuation to Unicode entities-- quoted passages get "curly quotes" for example.

If you work natively in Unicode, you can use Tidy[2] to convert those entites to UTF-8 characters, for real convenience.

Both products are available for download, and work on most platforms.

[1] http://textile.thresholdstate.com/
[2] http://infohound.net/tidy/

Um, that's really not what I'm looking for. I want to write HTML and CSS as usual, only faster

I have customized some of the keyboard shortcuts in Bluefish which helps a little. I also plan to put in a feature request at Quanta Plus.

I've always made a lot of use of shortcuts like this - I remember back in the 90's I kept using this really obscure little code editor just because it let me customize the keyboard shortcuts and had shorcuts for all the HTML tags. That was a big help back in the days of table layouts.

I have a username on the KDE bugs database, am entering your request now. Will post a link when I've got one.

I think Zend Studio does that kind of thing, but I don't think it's open source or anything like that.

matt wrote: I think Zend Studio does that kind of thing

Yeah, I was wondering whether Eclipse might do the job too, but Eclipse is such a pain in the arse to setup.

Zend studio would work on Ubuntu though, that would be a step in the right direction.

Okay, I'll check out Zend studio.

I'm working with Screem right now and it does do the HTML tag completion the way I'd like. It's a bit buggy though, although I've had problems with a lot of editors when working directly from a SSH connection.

I've also got jedit installed but am having problems getting the JRE installed so it will work. (might be some plugins for jedit that could work).

I should look at CSS editors too - I write a lot more CSS than HTML these days!

Megan wrote: Does anyone know of a text/code editor for Linux that can do Dreamweaver style tag completion?

In 2001, I had to use DW. I found it slowed production terribly, and haven't touched it since. So, bear with me if I misunderstand your needs.

Quote: usually I have the content already in place and am just putting the mark-up around it. Immediate tag completion is just annoying.

Emacs in html helper mode will insert tags, and move the point (cursor) to between them, ready to type. If you are marking up existing content, simply select the region by either dragging the mouse, or mark one end and move the cursor to the other. Use ctl-u to tell Emacs you're marking the region, and insert the tag. Emacs will put opening and closing tags at the beginning and end of the region respectively.

Quote: This, combined with DW's CSS completion features is really preventing me from doing more work on Linux. Does anyone know of a Linux editor that can do that? It's not really a GUI-based CSS editor, just inline auto-completion and suggested values.

Maybe because I abandoned table layouts for css-p nearly five years ago, I just don't see this 'feature' as at all necessary. There's not that many properties that are commonly used. Bookmark the css and html specs at W3 for info on the others.

One more comment on Emacs: A lot of folks are intimidated by the power and versatility Emacs offers. The manual runs into the megaBytes. But, you only need to learn the stuff you use. When/if you need another functionality, then you can take the time to learn it.

cheers,

gary

Everyone has editing features they value more than others - no need to put down someone else's preferneces just because you don't agree.

Go easy on the poor chap: he's an Emacs user. He hasn't even realised that Vim is a far superior editor yet!

Muhahahaa, sorry, couldn't resist it. But seriously: welcome to the forums Gary, good to have you with us. Am only joking about Emacs, there's another guy around here who uses it, I try baiting him all the time too.