[WEB4LIB] Re: Column on HTML Editors

[Thomas Dowling]

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From: "Blake Carver" <btcarver at lisnews.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Column on HTML Editors


> Am I the only one who still uses Vi, emacs and Pico?
>

Nope.  I still use vi on Unix and Textpad on Windows (which I find more
intuitive than NoteTab, but YMMV).

The advantages to using text editors remain in place.  If you really know
your markup and type with reasonable competence, there's no way a
menu-driven system can match the speed of typing.  More important to me,
if you create more than just HTML--say some Perl and PHP, and some plain
text files for back-end support--you can continue to use the tool you know
rather than switching back and forth.  And just IMO, it's beneficial for
an author to spend at least some time with his or her pages in a context
that's all structure, with no HTML rendering at all.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu