Html Editor non WYSIWYG

[Above The Rest 0]

To be honest, I just use notepad and I'm completely happy with that. Making my website has really strengthened my coding strength and if I used an editor, then my learning curve wouldn't have been so steep.

Why is that?

[crazyfray 0]

I think he's referring to how typing something 20 times tends to make you remember it, whereas autocompleting editors (such as the code editor in Dreamweaver (off topic, but people know what I mean then)) mean you can become a little lazy. Plus, when you spend 15 minutes trying to find why your XHTML page doesn't validate when it's just an unclosed tag (due to the size of your page), you become a bit more careful about closing them at the point of entry.Still, I prefer my editors

[anwiii 17]

What editor can I download and use that isn't a WYSIWYG(what-you-see-is-what-you-get) and is free. Currently I use NotePad but I want something better.

lyon took his time to post about the best free html editors in the freebie stuff section

http://forums.xisto.com/topic/21124-the-best-and-free-websitehtml-editors-text-editors-a-good-collection-check-it-out/

on page 3, he narrowed it down to his top 3. it's a very good list and i think referring to that topic above will help you out with your decision

my personal favorite is nvu


ok- editing this post since i don't know how to delete it. i just realized i responded to someone who posted over two years ago.....blah
Edited November 21, 2007 by anwiii (see edit history)

[Hagebyhemdata 0]

What editor can I download and use that isn't a WYSIWYG(what-you-see-is-what-you-get) and is free. Currently I use NotePad but I want something better.

Nice topic, I've runned the completly same question about a month ago, when I reech the limit of what i could take on notepad's one single undo function.

Usually I prefer to use Notepad to do any HTML or CGI scripting that is relatively small scale. I find that using Notepad significantly strengthens both your logistic ability with the language as well as your troubleshooting and improvisational abilities.
If you are looking for a good, clean text editor that isn't What You See Is What You Get that has a lot of nice text-editing features (such as Regular Expression Find and Replace functions) and auto-cursor positioning for when you edit a lot of similar lines, you might want to try out TextPad. It is free and very functional and efficient.

http://www.textpad.com/

As an added bonus, you can even type Java into the editor and compile and run it, but the Java options and capabilities in no way interfere with your HTML features or projects.

Textpad are available from http://textpad.com/products/textpad/index.html on a try before you buy basis. But if it's ok buying an application in the end why not go and buy a license on dreamweaver, for an exemple?
Btw, when you install Dreamweaver you get the option to choose how you want your workspace. Either a visual layout interface or a streamlined coding environment or a combination of them both.


After done my research after a notepad like program, I ran into metapad.

Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more.

I can heartly recommend this replacement for notepad if it is what you're looking for. I use it for notes, writing stuff and also for edit htm/php/sql files with ease. Go grab your copy @ http://liquidninja.com/metapad/ Edited November 21, 2007 by Hagebyhemdata (see edit history)

[iGuest 3]

I would recommend Html Beauty http://www.htmlbeauty.com/

 

The secon choice is more generalprogrammer's / developer's editorPsPad http://www.pspad.com/

 

good for HTML, but Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby,see++, ... editing toosee also Wikipedia article about PsPad http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

at the end of article are two linksList of text editors and Comparison of text editors, you can find MANY good tips there

 

[Evolke 0]

Im using KompoZer at the moment. Its fairly straight forward. Its somtimes a bit of a hassle but if you want a simple website its perfect
A bonus is KompoZer has its own inbuild FTP, so you dont have to download as much

[coolcat50 0]

I use Geany for lightweight editing, but I use Eclipse for large scale Perl/PHP/HTML stuff. Neither is WYSIWYG, but they both are open source and are guranteed spyware free. I have used Notepad++ before and I liked it very much. If you aren't doing a lot of coding, just grab Geany, but for large scale projects I suggest Eclipse or a WYSIWYG editor.

[SaNJ 0]

What editor can I download and use that isn't a WYSIWYG(what-you-see-is-what-you-get) and is free. Currently I use NotePad but I want something better.

For u I would recommend ....alleycode....alleycode

This a very useful HTML editor with all functionalities u need

the second option is coffeecup html editor...
this is also a great editor ..it can provide u with..many code snippets and other useful things that u would like to include in ur website...like a clock..a calender ...a loading screen...etc..

both of these editors are good...the choice is urs..