Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 05/26/06 16:30

Toby Inkster wrote:
> Mark Parnell wrote:
>
>> Change HTML editor to your program of choice. You can only select what's
>> in the drop-down list though, you can't add anything. I'm guessing it
>> gets that list from the programs associated with HTML files in Windows,
>> but I haven't looked into it that closely.
>
> Nope -- it gets them from a magic list that it makes up. You can probably
> tweak somewhere in the registry.
>
> Might be easier to rename "c:\windows\notepad.exe" to
> "c:\windows\crappy.exe" and put an editor of your choice where Notepad was.
>
> I quite like SciTE (google for it).
>

No can do easily in Win2k+, you have to hack the SFC 'System File
Checker' system that newer Windows uses to backup and protect system
files. I had to do this to replace Notepad with Metapad...

As to the View Source Editor in IE, it requires a registry hack. I
posted earlier in the thread, but shall repeat.

Under key:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

create a key 'View Source Editor'

then under 'View Source Editor' key create another key 'Editor Name'

then edit the (Default) value with path to EXE of desired program.



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Take care,

Jonathan
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