AyntRyte — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 02:32:26 +0000

Unique? Maybe not, but I've never seen one as intuitive.

Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 08:06:20 +0000

Bluefish is nice, I used it for nearly a year, I think, from 0.10 to 1.0. Prior to that I used Kate when I was in KDE.

Since I've diversified into non-web programming as well, Bluefish doesn't quite cut it as a one-stop editor, and I really don't like switching between multiple apps to do similar work. Also since I've started to rely on SSH at uni, well, the less GUI the better.

Tried Vim for a couple of months, and am now transitioning to Emacs. Both are nice, but I find Vim's clever modal editing a bit of a pain. Emacs Lisp is growing on me too.

Tbh, all I look for in an editor, as far as web coding goes, is syntax highlighting and auto-indenting schemes for XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, and XML/XSL. It's just nice to have all this bundled with the same portable app I use for other coding.

bja888 — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:33:51 +0000

Ya.... that sounds like all major html editors. Includeing mine. Nothing really unique there.

AyntRyte — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:28:57 +0000

My one-and-only for the past few years has been Note Tab Pro. Well worth the $20. Add-on libraries include PHP, CSS, etc. It has:
Multiple documents with tabs (saved between sessions)
Single or double click operations for , , , lists, etc., depending on how your customize the toolbars. You can select a whole doc of text and format it for html in a single click, including special characters.
Spellcheck
Imbed images (too simple if your folders match your server structure)
Convert tags or set default
Strip html
Convert text case
hyperlink (including mailto and bookmarks)
and a ton of other stuff I've never used.

And they haven't updated in about two years

bja888 — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:57:22 +0000

Well let’s see... The first editor I used was... Notepad! For About 6 months I was doing html/JavaScript in notepad. I don't remember what I used to get color values though.... On second though... I think I made them up. #RRGGBB. Lol I still remember!
Then I moved to a free version of ACE HTML (version 3 I think). Then about a year ago I played for version 6. I still don’t use very many of its features. I like it most for the syntax highlighting. Which I customize a different way every time I reformat

Few people make sacrifices like me. I learned the hard way. Oh, yes I am also self thought too. Thus why I hold such a grudge against amateurs using WYSIWYG editors. see

NewTechGuy — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:01:42 +0000

WOW, great response from all of you. Very valuable insight to all your preferences. I will be checking them all out....THANK YOU SO MUCH. I do all of my coding by hand and was just looking for something a little faster. If I choose to use a program I will most certainly continue to edit by hand.

Thanks again to all....

timjpriebe — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:51:06 +0000

Yay! I designed my first site in awhile with Fireworks/Dreamweaver last night. Took some getting used to again, but I love it.

JeevesBond — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:39:36 +0000

Ah, I've got a copy of that on my Linux box, damn good app!

I use Dreamweaver but can't stand the idea of letting any kind of WYSIWYG rubbish touch my beautiful code! Also I'm a heavy user of CSS hacks so DW often can't render what I've done.

So I use it primarily as a text beautifyer. At my day job I use HTML Kit, it's free but still good at making the code render in pretty colours

02bunced — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:15:40 +0000

Bluefish!

Auriga — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:38:45 +0000

PHP Expert Editor!

Easy to use and the built in FTP access to your site allows you to alter your pages in 'real time'.