Posted by Michael Laplante on 01/12/74 11:49

"Toby Inkster" <usenet200605@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Michael Laplante wrote:

> What's the point when there are far better text editors that have
> *automatic* syntax highlighting.
>
> http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

For beginners who are intimidated by learning a new program, they may be
more comfortable with a program where they are familiar with all the
functions and their locations. Most people have Word or a similarly powered
word processor on their computer.

You can "particularize" the highlighting to suit your needs. Most dedicated
html editors let you play with the syntax highlighting colour (sometimes)
but it's all or nothing. Sometimes for debugging purposes it's helpful to
use different colours for different "subsections" of the page. Word has the
ability to search by style as well as expressions, so that can be useful at
times.

I generally use Notetab Pro or HTML-Kit but there are times I revert to Word
for reasons such as mentioned previously.

It's a suggestion.


M

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