Html Editor

[Centurian]

As alot of you know I have only been using Linux for a couple months now. I was wondering what html editor you all suggest for linux? I am planning to upgrade my website and I no longer wish to use frontpage express and notepad. Of course I could just use a linux editor but sometimes it is very handy to have a good html editor.

Mandrake comes with 2 Bluefish and Quanta Plus. Would you recommend either of these or something totally different?

BTW if your interested my website is  Dark Mares
Soon there will be a new improved Dark Mares.  

[voidmain]

I think "vim" is the best HTML editor ever made (and best any kind of code editor really, nothing like syntax highlighting). Of course if "vim" is a little intimidating to you because of it's command syntax you can have sort of a cross between it and notepad with "kwrite".  "kwrite" has syntax highlighting as well and is a good code editor.  I like "vim" though because I can easily edit code right on the server without having to have a graphical environment running and without having to transfer files back and forth.  It works well over telnet/ssh. And it's uses an extended set of vi commands so if you can use vim you pretty much can use vi which is common among all *NIX.  I think everyones first impressions of vi/vim is "man, what the hell is this crap?" but like Linux, if you stick with it and put in an effort to learn it you will be rewarded.  It is one powerful text editor.

Just bring up kwrite and click on the settings menu then select whatever highlighting mode you want to work with.

[ February 25, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[dbl221]

Well call me odd but I still like vi.

Vim just seems to get in my way, or I have no time to learn it is more likely.

Ii tried Quanta Plus and ...I like it.

Plan to use it when I get a chance.

[Centurian]

Hey,

I took a look at vim "shudders"     I don't think I am ready for that one just yet. Kwrite looks pretty good though. From what I have heard there are no WYSIWYG html editors for linux. Is that correct?

I do kinda like Quanta. It offers a basic 17 colors set which should be fully web safe and also allows for customization of colors. It also offers a nice internal browser. On the other hand Bluefish offers a much wider range of commands but does not offer the websafe colors. Of course  you can customize it anyway you want. One thing I don't like about it is it previews everything in Netscape. Not that that is necessarily bad just that I don't care much for netscape. I tried to reconfigure it to preview in Mozilla but that does not work for some reason.

Anyway anyone have any other suggestions? So I far I can say I will be using Kwrite as a notepad replacement. I like its syntax hi-lighting features. Now just have to decide on the frontpage express replacement.

[asdf]

I use emacs for all HTML and programming purposes. It also has text highlighting. Some say that it's very bloated (well, it is, I guess) but I find it quite useful. I actually tried several times to switch to using vim but my hands were already accustomed to the emacs key bindings. The learning curve for emacs isn't as steep as that of vim, in my opinion.

[Centurian]

Hey all,

Thanks for your input everyone. I have made a decision. I am going with Mozilla Composer (limited WYSIWYG) side by side with Kwrite. That combination seems the closest to the FPX and Notepad combo I used under Windows.

Thanks again for all the input. If nothing more it got me looking at some programs I might never have noticed otherwise. Now at some point if I need them I know they exist.  

[voidmain]

I hate most WYSIWYG programs because most of them spit out garbage HTML and none of them can do what I need them to do.  There's nothing like the control you have when you write the code yourself and use the browser(s) to check results.  But I seem to be in the minority these days, and it shows on most sites.

[ February 27, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[lu666s]

I favor editors that have  'project' capabilities (in other words keeping a track of project rel;ated files). Kate, Quanta plus, jEdit.

[Master of Reality]

I wanna learn VB and C++ and all that programming... does anyone know a good site to learn from?

Is there any programming applications that are free for linux?
  :confused:

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Druaga:
I wanna learn VB and C++ and all that programming... does anyone know a good site to learn from?

Is there any programming applications that are free for linux?
   :confused:  

Yes, all of them are free on Linux.  Linux is a programmers wet dream.  C/C++, Perl, Python, tcl/tk, PHP, sh, bash, ksh, csh, tcsh, FORTRAN, Java, Pascal, and many more.

There's one you will not find and that is VB, that's a dead end M$ product.  There are free basic interpereters out there though.  But no real programmer uses basic.

[Centurian]

Hey VoidMain,

 

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:

But no real programmer uses basic.

I don't know that I can completely agree with this. The term basic has in recent times come to mean a simpler implementation to a goal. Some basics are just crap, VB for one, but some basics are an extremely powerful implementation that compile their code to full machine code. I have used alot of languages including C/C++ Pascal and several basics. One in particular sticks in my head. Blitz Basic is a very powerful direct X interface for both 2D and 3D graphics which compiles to machine code. No interpretter required.

If your interested and you can run DX games/tools  check out some of the ones on my site.

Dark Mares you will find them on the Win Related page.

[Master of Reality]

cool... i should be getting a new computer around march 10, i am going to put linux-mandrake on it. its gonna be sweet.

no more of this windoze shit!