On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:52:50 -0800 (PST) Simon Roberts
What do people use to create/edit web pages? I'm currently trying OpenOffice, but it seems to do some odd things, at least with pages that were originally created elsewhere (and contain _way_ too many <span> directives!)
This question is an invitation to a religious war. I've seen it dozens of times. So I'll just say from the outset, I'm submitting one and only one post about this. Like others here, I've used vi(m), but just on occasion. I find emacs much friendlier and powerful. You can modify and/or prpgram just about anything in it. Creating macros is a breeze. You can also use it to read and create directories, read and send email, browse webpages, launch any other web browser with your html file in it, and a lot of other things. It has modes (sort of like a collection of shortcuts) not just for html, but also sgml and php and a few other languages. With an add-on called tramp, or another called ange-ftp, you can use emacs to edit a file on any other machine on the internet (of course you need access to that machine), making it really handy for updating pages on a machine hosted elsewhere. Of course it does regular things like spell-checking and on-the-fly spelling correction. Vi(m) might do some or all of this. I've just found that the learning curve for vi is much steeper and so I spend a lot more time thinking about how to move the cursor around. With emacs the distractions are far fewer, so I can concentrate much more on what I want to say. I do have some criticisms of emacs, but I've already voiced those enough (in other online venues) and this list isn't the place for them. Just to say that I'm not in love with emacs. It's just a really good tool to use. -- "This world ain't big enough for the both of us," said the big noema to the little noema.