Posted by Toby Inkster on 09/30/04 11:41

Dylan Parry wrote:

> Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", mbstevens
> finally proclaimed:
>
>>> bluefish 1.0.2
>>> NvU
>>> Quanta
>>> Screem
>>
>> Ugh. Get a text editor with syntax highlighting and
>> regular expressions.
>
> Both Quanta and Bluefish are *exactly* that.

As is Screem.

Screem is actually a helluva nice editor for web stuff. If I was going to
go down the swiss-army-knife-of-web-development, Screem would be my chosen
editor.

It's a really nice tabbed text editor, with syntax highlighting for
HTML/XHTML/XML/SGML, Javascript, Perl, PHP and ASP (VBScript and JScript);
autocompletion of HTML attributes as you type (whatsmore, when you are
editing an HTML/XHTML/XML/SGML document it will actually *look* at the DTD
to determine which attributes are legal!)

It's got regular expression search-and-replace (what UNIX editor doesn't
though?)

It's got an integrated HTML preview (based on the GtkHTML rendering engine
I think), and menu options to launch up to four user-definable external
viewers. It builds a browsable DOM tree of the document that you're
editing, similar to the DOM inspector in Mozilla.

Lastly, it has an integrated file upload tool which supports FTP, WebDAV
and SCP.

As I say, if I were going down the swiss-army-knife route, Screem is what
I'd pick up.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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