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Posted by Joe (GKF) on 11/03/06 02:58
In article <0001HW.C16F154500508540B019F94F@News.Individual.Net>,
patrick@jamesnews.orangehome.co.uk says...
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 02:46:37 +0000, dorayme wrote
> (in article
> <doraymeRidThis-33F6B1.13463702112006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>):
>
> > But it is not hard to make your own little gismos with Search and
> > Replace functions. For example, you want a list. You select the
> > text that has one item on each line and you apply a previously
> > saved "Find & Replace" pattern, for example, in BBEdit (a Mac
> > editor) I keep Replace ^ with <li> and it replaces the beginning
> > of the line with <li>, similar for the end. There is very little
> > you cannot do with this sort of thing.
>
> I agree entirely that for creation of HTML what is required is a text
> editor with good find/replace.
>
> I use BBEdit (on a Mac) as well primarily because the find/replace
> implementation is excellent.
>
> For me a good find/replace is far more valuable than anything you might
> get from a "WYSIWYG" type of editor.
>
> As well as GREP good multi-file find/replace is also essential. With
> multi-file find replace of common elements throughout a series of files
> can be easily changed.
>
> The next good thing to have in an editor for HTML is scriptability.
> With this then I can compile find/replace expressions and include other
> commands thus effectively creating my own features.
>
>
Totally agree with all of that. On Windows, I like Notepad++
(http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ ) and SciTE
(http://www.scintilla.org )
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