Favorite HTML editor and page authoring software?

[Stacy Pober]

Although most of my HTML is done in a text editor, I'm thinking of getting 
a program that will help write cgi scripts, as I'm told Front Page does. 

Would anyone care to recommend their favorites, or steer me clear of the 
ones they found difficult or frustrating to use?   

Ideally, I want to have one that will allow me to "resist" its suggestions 
about my current HTML.  I've found that with Pagemill and some other 
web writing software, if you take an existing, reasonably clean HTML page 
and try to add new text in the editor, it will also alter all your 
previous tags, even if your HTML works and is is relatively clean.  (For 
example, I find that existing tables will get new spacing because some 
editors insist that a <P> tag start all text within a <TD> box.


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