From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 30 12: 0:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C4037B657 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:00:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA57474; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:49:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:49:50 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: David Johnson Cc: ML Duke , alex , FreeBSD Subject: Re: html editor In-Reply-To: <39FDB99E.40A96428@acuson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I thought bluefish was one of the possibilities in this area. Sure, you can do html in a text editor. There's also an enormous time saving in software that inserts some of these repetitive strings with a click. But I thought this was a "no substantive questions or answers" list? Annelise On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, David Johnson wrote: > ML Duke wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > What is a good html/php editor to install from ports or packages??? > > > > vi > > I have no idea whether this was meant as a joke or not, but it makes an > important point. HTML files are *text* files. vi does work! And it works > well! > > But, I suspect the poster wanted a GUI interface of some kind. I still > recommend using a text based editor, instead of a wysiwyg editor. If > you're using to FrontPage, time to broaden your horizons (and start > writing *valid* html). Emacs/XEmacs has an HTML mode with syntax > highlighting and extras. If you use GNOME or KDE, gedit and kwrite are > other good options. In fact, kwrite with konqueror for preview and > looking up HTML documentation, are all that I need. > > David > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message