Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (516 mails)

[Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gilles SICHE <gilles.siche@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:

Emacs can do all that, but it has a steep learning curve. However, the
possibility with Emacs is infinite, it is infinitely customizable and is
cross-platform.

> I use Notepad++ to create web pages, the lines are coloured according
> to their value/meaning, which is a common feature in many such text
> editors

There are quite a few major-modes for Emacs to suite your liking.

> But what I like above all, is the possibility to make the same change
> in more than one page at the same time (ctrl+H : make changes in all
> opened pages),

In Emacs use "moccur-edit".

> save all opened pages

The equivalent keys in Emacs is C-x s.

> and the possibility to open the browser directly from Notepad++ to see
> what the page looks like.

No problem in all the html modes. You can also open any url with
"browse-url".

Charles

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