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Re: [LUG] PDF's and the paperless office - well NVU really

 

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Tom Potts wrote:
> On Monday 08 January 2007 22:53, Grant wrote:
>> Greg Dash wrote:
>>>> It doesn't. However, Windows users are blessed with notepad++ which is
>>>> almost the same and at least as good.
>>> Notepad++ is excellent, and very similar to bluefish. Nvu is nice but
>>> I do think its better to learn (X)HTML and hand code it, Yes it can
>>> take time, but its nice to know how to code in HTML.
>> Although I may happen to agree with you, there is a very large number of
>> people "out there" who would disagree with that sentiment... and NVU was
>> designed for them.
> The only reason to learn (X)HTML is because all the editors are really quite 
> dire in one way or another. Which is quite sad really after 16 years of HTML!

I'd have to disagree, some people want to know their (X)HTML and get a
feel for the page. It's the same kind of thing as coding with assembly,
people do it because they want to know how their pages are put together
at the most basic level.

> NVU is nowhere near complete but it doesn't seem to have the attitude problems 
> of some of the others and is fairly OS agnostic.
>  I think FCKeditor is a much better HTML editor but I haven't found a Simple 
> backend for it. Cuyahoga looks good for collaborative stuff but as I said I 
> aint got it running yet.
> I suppose I could look at modifying NVU to use FCKeditor one day......
> 
> Tom te tom te tom

Give me Gedit with syntax highlighting any day...

Matt


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