[Gllug] HTML editors

[Paul Brazier]

> >Can anyone recommend a fairly lightweight GPL HTML editor for Linux?
> >
> >I'm just looking for things like syntax highlighting and 
> auto-indenting,
> >not a WYSIWYG thing.
> 
> Not watning to start another flamewar, of course, but the obvious
> answer is vi (or actually, vim, if you want the syntax highlighting).

I do use vi for simple editing of config files but I don't find the
interface very user-friendly.
I think it must have been designed when keyboards didn't have arrow
keys, numeric keypads or function keys. I use an MS environment at work
and I find 99% of what I use is Ctrl/Shirt and the arrow keys for
highlighting, then Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to cut and paste. In vi I find this
sort of thing very complicated. I've worked out that to copy a few lines
I do something like ":.,.+3t+4" but I've still not found an easy way to
copy and paste an arbitrary few words. Even the help system itself is
difficult to use. Maybe it can be customised to behave like Notepad but
using it is difficult enough let alone programming it.

I do like the menu bar paradigm as it means you can easily start using
something then use the keyboard shortcuts as you pick them up.

Maybe vi is used more for historical then logical reasons?

> Jed should work, too.

I have heard Jed is a more user-friendly version of vi so I'll give this
a try for remote ssh editing but I think X-based apps are the way to go
for desktop editing.

I had a look at nedit that someone else mentioned and it looks just what
I'm looking for.



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