Amiga HTML editors - what do you use?

[TheGoose]

What web editors do you use on your Amiga if you do? Anyone try that Metal Web program?

Another thing, how do the forums support HTML? I tried a simple link the other day but it wouldn't render. Looked at the source code and saw quotes turned in to single quotes, what's going there?
my web space

Thanks :-)

I have tried several  MetalWeb, WebDesign, Webmaker, & Web Plug.  Call me old-fashioned, but I use Cygnus-Ed with HTML-Heaven.  I just save the web page and I flip to my open browser and say refresh.  It may not be as new-fangled as a WYSIWYG editor, but I haven't seen a really good one for the Amiga yet.  This works for me.

[Lexx]

I've tried MetalWeb. For extremely simple stuff, it'll do, but after that it's crash city.    You'll wind up going back to a simple text editor or a text editor with an HTML support package as stated by another user.

[TheGoose]

Do those text editors have line numbering? I'm just starting to consider doing something on the web using my Amiga for fun.

What exactly do you mean by line numbering?  CygnusEd tells you where your cursor is by column and row.  Is this what you mean?  I don't see how this helps or hinders web design though.

I do nearly everything web-related from my Amiga.

[TheGoose]

Thanks, Yea, that sounds fine. I'm just use to debugging and like something with line numbers.

Have you or anyone, tried Amiga Apache?

[Kent]

As for an editor, anything with context coding will do it for me since I build html by hand.  However, it doesn't matter if there is context hilighting or not, I still do it by hand.  The other requirement I look for in an editor is the ability to control tabs and the conversion of tabs to spaces.  All of my html I build must have 2 space tabs with the tab character stripped and removed when saved.  I do this type of tabbing for legibility sake when I go back to edit a web site or component.

My favorite editor is Eve (currently a work in progress by Roger Monkman) followed very closely by Blacks Editor.  Neither of them have syntax hilighting but they are very powerful editors with enormous ARexx capabilities.  If I had to choose between all of the editors available today, I would definately go with GoldED on a professional level followed by CygnusED.

What is needed are programs like HomeSite5 and TopStyle3 Pro.  Take out quite a few of the meaningless features in both products and you have an awesome product.

To place a link in a comment, use the '[' and ']' in this fashion:

'['url=http://mypage.com']'Title of page'['/url']'
*Note: Remove single quote marks for the link to render.  If you have a space in the url use %20 to substitute the space.

:pint:

[Argo]

Ed, what more is there to say.
I like things simple and coding by hand.
On the PC I use TextPad.

[Targhan]

GoldED Studio 6

It has a really nice HTML plugin with the package which does some JS parsing too (IIRC).  It has an "explorer" window that will scan the directory of the #?.html file you are editing and will put all of your sources at your fingertips.  I haven't had the money to try the AIX package.

I have metal web, and have used it to set up the "base" page if I'm playing with frames.  Tables are a no-no in metalweb, and TBH that package needs a LOT of work.

[JoNty]

@Argo "Ed, what more is there to say."

Ed's pathetic. It uses CON:, and if KingCON's scroll bar's are used it mangles up the text.

CygnusEd all the way baby!

[Desmon]

CygnusEd v4.20
Best little text editor on ANY platform.
And I don't use any plugins. Hand coded all the way!

[Desmon]

@JoNty

That's shoUlders.

8^)

[JoNty]

Didn't take much notice of the spelling at the time when I C&P it.

[rhino]

I also write my pages by hand, I use GoldEd and the web world plug-in although to be honest I don't think I make the most of the Web World features - I never really seem to have the time to get into it properly. That said the syntax highlighting is handy for spotting silly mistakes (missing quotes and the like).

For the Total Amiga site I use hsc this is an HTML preprocessor which allows you to include external HTML files and and many other useful functions. It took me a while to get everything set-up but now I can make changes to common elements of the site headers and footers, the look of tables etc. much more quickly. If you're doing a site that's going to see a lot of updates and you're not up to writing something properly database driven it's a good option.

Robert
http://www.totalamiga.org
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk

[Nick]

I used GoldED to create the initial version of my website. It had been years since I had done
any html and the only thing I could remember was that "<" go around commands. Though I do want to do
a rewrite, as I know I could do better now. I`m pleased with it, but it does need redoing. The
webworld plug in is so helpful. For the beginner or the pro. You have a list of pages, images etc on
the right of the window. Useful!