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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.

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