Do you write html in notepad?

[DevilsCharm]

I didn't know there were variations of Notepad. During the brief period I (tried) designing websites, I used Notepad.

[G_Morgan]

Originally Posted by DevilsCharm

I didn't know there were variations of Notepad. During the brief period I (tried) designing websites, I used Notepad.

There aren't. Notepad2 and Notepad++ are separate projects. I don't mind Notepad++ apart from the fact some of the default code formatting is insane. Best example is that some code elements use non-monospace fonts which is plain crazy.

[WingedPanther]

I use Crimson Editor (looking at Emerald Editor) and Programmer's Notepad. They have slightly different features but are both basically text editors.

[TcM]

Originally Posted by DevilsCharm

I didn't know there were variations of Notepad. During the brief period I (tried) designing websites, I used Notepad.

As Morgan said, the 'other versions' of Notepad are just third party softwares.

[Nathandelane]

The thing I find hard to deal with when using a WYSIWYG editor for HTML is that what you see is NOT ALWAYS what you get in real life. So to have more control I use Notepad++ and XAMPP (which is a collection of Apache, PHP, and MySQL) to write my web applications. Sure nothing is done for me, but Notepad++ has syntax highlighting and helps a lot with source code formatting (which is my other complaint with WYSIWYG editors, because the source code they generate is always very hard to read). That my two cents - I also tend to use W3Schools' website as a reference for my HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

[Chambered]

I use Notepad if I have to, but highly prefer Programmer's Notepad. I've tried a few other programs like Crimson Editor and Notepad++, but I always ended up going back to Programmer's Notepad.

[G_Morgan]

Most editors are middle of the road jobs anyway. I don't know of any that matches my ideal editor. I did at one point list the key concepts for my ideal editor and intended to implement it but it seemed less interesting than other things I could do.

Main thing I'd like to see is one with really powerful templates and text macros so I can auto generate a lot of the boiler plate code. Naturally I'd have to write the templates but I've seen the same patterns across file level, method level and block level so many times that it drives me nuts.

Of course, if most languages had first class functions and syntax based macros (rather than crappy C text replacement ones) this would be entirely a waste of time. I'd write a macro or higher order function to deal with my pattern.

The other thing I find lacking in most editors (and IDE's for that matter) is first class refactoring support. Really I spend huge amounts of time refactoring and even micro-optimisations are useful. Editors who's only support for refactoring are find/replace over highlighted regions do not make me happy .

[Death Slaught]

Using Notepad or Text Edit is the best way to go.

Sure it makes you do a little more work, but that's a good thing. By using a simple text editor there's no shortcuts you're doing the coding all by yourself, this in the long run will help you generate less syntax errors, which will save you loads of time.

Personaly I've never used anything but Notepad, and i'm going to keep it that way, because i've seen alot of good programmers switch to them, and then things go horribly wrong do to a few simple errors.


- Death

[csmith1991]

Used dreamweaver, notepad, notepad2, notepad++ and another of which I forget... However now I just use notepad2, seems the easiest and best to me...

[ReekenX]

I have Dreamweaver i am using Notepad++ and PHPdeveloper - two very useful programs (first is freeware)