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Old 11-01-2009, 03:40 PM   PM User | #1
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Good Freeware HTML Editor

I've been using an xml editor. It's okay, but I'm not happy with its failure to auto-indent and the way it views poorly when shown in the "view source" pane of browsers.

Does anyone know of a nice, freeware html editor. No Wysiwyg's, please. Just a good text editor.
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It doesn't show line number you're on. That would make javascript debugging tough.
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Notepad++ or Notepad2 or any variation on the Notepad theme, really.
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Notepad doesn't show line numbers, either.

My question made me recall, also, that back in the DOS days, there was an editor called "Boxer." One GREAT feature it had was that, when you began selecting a portion of the code in the middle of a line and went to the next line, the select would stay in line with where you began in the previous line.

That was VERY useful because you could take a rectangle right out of the middle, copy it, and paste it elsewhere. You did not have to take all the junk around it, copy it, paste it, and then trim off what you just pasted to get back to the square you wanted.
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Notepad++ and Notepad2. Please reread what I said.
I believe any editor would do this. Hold Shift and then press the arrows keys. I do it all the time.
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I see. I never knew they existed. So, which is better?
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down to personal preference

try them and see ^^
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Thank you, guys! The NP++ looks to be pretty good! Will paly with it a while, but this, I can tell, is more of a programmer's editor, unlike the xml editor I was using.
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So far, I LOVE the tree lines that help you match your indents! Beautiful!
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