Text editors? opinions?

what's wrong with notepad?

I use it for simple stuff, and any other small changes I have to make. But if I'm doing a large progect I like to use MS Visual InterDev. But InterDev could be called an authoring program, I guess.

What features are you looking for?

I like notepad too...but i sometimes have need to do editing on other sites where a search and replace feature whould be great as well as having colored tags..that sort of thing.
So far i've heard the best things about:
Acehtml
Arachnaphilia
Homesite
Cute
But when i look at the screen shots they all look very confusing.
Need imput..
thanks

dragonsjaw

The thing that bugs me the most about notepad is that there is no shortcut for save. Coloured tags help a lot too, and shortcut keys for common tags speeds things up a lot. Also a preview window enclosed in the program so you don't have to keep switching back and forth.

Homesite is certainly the best text editor out there. It might take awhile to figure it out if you haven't been using a fancy editor though. 1st Page 2000 is almost exactly like Homesite but for free (1st page doesn't include extended search and replace though, that's the only important thing that's different basically... oh, and my free trial of homesite is still working after many months. I will actually buy it someday when I can afford it...).

Really, though, they're basically all the same. You can start by writing your HTML as you would in notepad, and figure out the extras at your own pace. Homesite is very customizable.

If you're looking for something simpler, I used an editor called Webwerx for the longest time (and still do on occasion). It's small, fast, and supports coloured tags and keyboard shortcuts (which are two of the essentials for me). It is very, very easy to use.

Homesite is the one to go for.

The only thing I don't like about it is that it has a problem with opening PHP files, or for that matter, any files without the "traditional" extensions [excluding Mysql, ASP, and cold fusion files, that is] so it gets me kind of mad, but the coloration helps a lot.

Thanks for your response Megan..I guess i will just have to d/l a free one and see if i can make it work! Homesite really gets the raves....but the other one you mentioned looks good too and its free!!
I have one called NotetabLite i d/l last year when i was taking a class and found i could just write the html lots faster than trying to figure the program to write it out..

oh well..patience is..

later~~
dragonsjaw

Hey thanks to you too Mike, your last post and mine just came in at the same time!

I guess I'll try Homesite ...if lots of folks use it ..
i should be able to find help if i need it...

I'm aways away from php,mysql....etc.....like years..
later~~

dragonsjaw

Hi,

I use 4:
1) FP Xpress -- for putting up tables, mostly
2) Notepad & Wordpad -- both from windows
3) cuteHTML 1.0 -- the one I do real work in. It's a notepad for coders. cute is as simple or involved as you want it to be. It pops up html tags and attributes, allows you to save and insert 'snippets' (sort of like a library of functions), doesn't chew up dHTML (which FP Xpress does all the time), allows you to view the page in the browser/s of your choice, color codes the tags for crossBrowser compatibility, opens any sort of text file, and best of all is free -- GlobalScape

Vinny

I have used the following:

HomeSite
Textpad
Notetab

All are similar - and are basically Notepad on steroids.

I use Homesite and Notepad. Mostly Homesite because it has the colored code and it is easier to find things. For tables that get kinda "screwy" I sometimes use Dreamweaver just because I don't want to put up with figuring out all the colspans and colrow's. That's as far as my Dreamweaver use goes though.

There is an awsome program called "Editpad" that I usually replace notepad on my w2k boxes with. It's pretty sweet stuff and doesn't screw up unix files by saving them with \r\n so they work correctly without extra pain and hassle.

Should be able to find it from a site like http://www.shareware.com I believe it's free.

Greg

You can go here to download it
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-1475101-100-2787783.html?tag=st.dl.10001_103_1.lst.td_2787783

i like notepad and its lack of bells and whistles.

If I'm working on...

-perl/CGI I use NotePad
-ASP InterDev
-PHP a mix of NotePad (for quick edits) and InterDev (for it's Project Explorer and find/replace functions and 'goto line #')
-general HTML and JavaScript usually NotePad

The first editor I used was Hippie98. Had split screen code/browser. It's free. You can register it if you want (i did, but didin't get anything worth while).
http://hippie98.com/

[am I narrow minded?]

Hands down my favourite text editor. Now in 3 flavours -- Classic, Lite and full. http://www.jgsoft.com/editpad.html is the url you need.

Suzanne

I use 1st Page and I like it.

It's friendly with four customized levels of use. You can work with a beginner's version for easy stuff or try out their hardcore mode for ASP, Web TV and all sorts of stuff. Comes with built-in Javascript and DHTML - very nice for people who know very little of either, like me.
I also like the constant preview which lets you try and do things without actually changing the file. It does have a search & replace function, but only in the particular page that you're working on. I use BK ReplaceEm for replacing strings on several files at once.

And it's free! What else can you ask for?

I also use Notepad for very short and simple pages. 2 Problems with Notepad that I have are:

1. No proper indentation mechanism.
2. It won't work with long documents.

EvrSoft -
http://www.evrsoft.com/

BK ReplaceEm -
http://www.orbit.org/replace/

Anat