Wil — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:12:25 +0000

Hmmmm.....

Suzanne — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:11:08 +0000

Ohh, you set the special custom colours in the preferences, not in the document.

Wil — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:10:49 +0000

Hi Suaznne

Thanks for your help on this one. I did indeed read the manual but I still can't figure it out.

Here's what I can see when I click the colour button. I don't see an option to change the syntax colours? Only to switch it on or off? Am I missing something?

Suzanne — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:38:01 +0000

Under the BBEdit menu, choose preferences. You *should* be able to edit the colours of the syntax and customize them there.

Since coloured syntax is available for Perl, I'd assume you could change it there. If I recall, it's in a weird location, but definitely in the preferences. I don't suppose you've read the manual? (Chapter 10) I believe it's "text colors". Page 174 in the manual, page 188 in the pdf file.

Wil — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:38:34 +0000

Mark,

Mac OS X, yes. Of course, I could just fire up a terminal window and use vim but I do like a useable GUI when there is one around. I'm just going through my options to find the most suitable, and if there isn't anthing better I'll resort to vim.

Wil — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:37:36 +0000

I've purchased the full version of BBEdit but I still can't find the option to change syntax highlighting colours for Perl. Maybe this can only be done for the default XHTML (though I haven't found this option either).

Suzanne — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:04:13 +0000

Looking up the BareBones site, there is also http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml which is their generic text editor.

I don't use the validation functions often, instead I use the w3c ones.

Suzanne — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:01:50 +0000

There is also TacoHTML which does a good job as a lightweight, fast editor for folks like me who don't need a lot of the power of BBEdit all the time. (Though I almost always have BBEdit open, I haven't upgraded to the OSX version, so I use Lite, which is discontinued, or TacoHTML for fast work when it isn't).

You can run DW as well, innumerable plain text editors, including those that come embedded in ftp software.

druagord — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:44:59 +0000

there is bbedit what do you need more. but vim is also available those are the 2 i use

Mark Hensler — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:42:52 +0000

iBook = Mac, right? How many editors are there out there for Macs?