Thread: Notepad Baby!
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Unread 06-01-2004, 22:15
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Re: Notepad Baby!

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Originally Posted by Aaron Knight
Meh

I'm not one to talk about hand-coding, as I use Adobe GoLive CS for a lot of stuff, but I primarily hand-code using PageSpinner (mac) just because of syntax coloring

Not to say Notepad isn't worth using, but I get really really sick of downloading files from the server to do quick edits on a PC at school just to find it ignored all 100+ line breaks in the page I want to edit........

I must say I am partial to syntax coloring, as well as the somewhat more visual process available in GoLive et al. for very quick edits. Notepad as a simple dev tool is ok, but there are many better non-"cheating" methods of web design that are more efficient. Text editors with syntax coloring are still text editors and you're still hand-coding....
I never really run into problems with the line breaks because all my stuff is done in the same program. And I usually do it on a network share or via a utility I ported to windows called My Shell I think, though I call it Teldos. It's got a nifty editor that works really well for web edits especially if you're working with server-side stuff that can't be run on your client machine without additional software. If anyone wants a copy, I'd be glad to email you mine, but I've somewhat customized it to my needs so you'd have to remove some of that. I don't really mind editors with syntax editing, I think they all fit in the category of hand coding as you say, and I've really gotten to like Dev-PHP as mentioned earlier by one of the users of this thread (I think Sanddrag) mostly because I can now tab entire paragraphs when I want to add a simple error detection if to encompass the whole page and not mess up my beautiful hierarchy. But syntax highlighting is just too arbitrary to be useful for me except when I leave a quote open and the rest of the page turns green making it quite easy to find...
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