[plug] html editors

[James Elliott]

I have just finished an e-mail to Murdoch Uni suggesting the IT department
have a look at the OOo HTML editor.

If you set out a page in the wysiwyg word processing type editor, when you
change "view" to HTML view you find beautifully set out code which is text
book correct, unlike some of the weird and wonderful code generated by MS
FrontPage and some other editors.

I prefer to write code rather than word process, but it is handy to have the
facility when you forget a command or have 2-3 goes at getting the syntax
right, without success - you can switch to wysiwyg; set out that part of
your Web page and then change back to see how you should have done it in the
first place.

Kind regards,

James Elliott

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Devenish" <devenish at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] html editors


> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:58:15PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> > >>I like vim, but the syntax highlighting is a bit garish.  I suppose it
> > >>can be configured.  How?
>
> I forgot to mention: it is the 'highlight' command that you would want
> to use. If you open up an HTML document with syntax highlighting and
> then type ":hi", you will get a visual display of the current colours.
> This applies to both gvim and vim.
>
> Note also that I was just attempting to use vim on a RedHat machine
> but it seems it (RH 7.3) has harmful default settings. Not sure what
> OS you are using.
>
> One nice thing about vim is that there is a Windows version so I can
> actually edit files under Windows (and using basically the same
> settings as under UNIX and Linux).
>
>
>