Windows HTML Editor Worth Using
Apr
03
A co-worker recommended I download a program touting to be the "TextMate" for Windows called "E-TextEditor". For those of you who don't know what TextMate is, it is an HTML editor exclusively for Mac, that is exclusively amazing. Knowing the great things TextMate offers, and owning a PC myself, I was pretty excited to see if the claims were true. So, I downloaded, and I honestly must say, I'm very impressed. The functionality of this editor is pretty amazing. There really is a long list of things that can be done with this editor, so I'll just list a few of my favorite things (like the song):
- If you have the HTML bundle selected, and create a new
document, and type 'skel' + Tab, TextEditor will
automatically generate an HTML skeleton for you:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Page Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/master.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html> - Type 'Table' + Tab and see what happens
- Holding down the 'Alt' key, and clicking and dragging your mouse over text will allow you to do column selection.
- Type 'h1' + Tab, and the h1 open and close will auto-generate. Then begin typing, and based on the content, E-TextEditor will suggest a value for the h1's 'id'.
The list goes on an on. Anyway, I recommend downloading
the trial version, and giving it a try. You may find it
worth the $35 to own it outright.
- Tagged as: E TextEditor, HTML editor, Mac, opinion, text editor, TextMate, tools, Web Development, Windows
- Categorized under: Opinion, Tools, Web Development
