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View Poll Results: Web Development Editor of the Year
Quanta 354 44.31%
Bluefish 172 21.53%
Ginf 2 0.25%
Screem 23 2.88%
Nvu 199 24.91%
Mozilla Composer 49 6.13%
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Old 02-10-2006, 08:31 AM   #31
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Kate, but bluefish makes an ok second. I never use it though.
FYI Quanta uses Kate as its editor, but adds a LOT more memu options for text manipulation. The only thing that Kate/Quanta is missing that I REALLY need is macros.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 02:36 AM   #32
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Quanta. Simply for PHP and it's great CSS editor.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 04:23 AM   #33
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NetBeans 5.0...
 
Old 02-16-2006, 11:58 AM   #34
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If I were able to use it in Linux, I'd say TopStyle Pro. But, alas...

I tried Quantro and found it lacking. Tried Bluefish and Screem. I'm back with Quantro.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 01:42 PM   #35
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TopStyle Pro runs very, very well under wine.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 04:29 PM   #36
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Seems like the Bluefish users think that you **have to** develop WYSIWYG when using Quanta+ otherwise they wouldn't have made the comments they did. Quanta allows you to develop both in code (not just HTML, but PHP, perl, even straight text) as well as WYSIWYG. Quanta+ has so many more useful features that there are only two reason not to use it:

1. You haven't seen all of the features.
2. You are so used to something else that you don't want to spend the time learning Quanta+.

If you look at it in terms of ease of use, number of very useful features and extensibility it is really had to see what someone would want to use anything else.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 06:11 PM   #37
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Emacs? Where is Emacs???
 
Old 02-17-2006, 12:55 AM   #38
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Quote:
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FYI Quanta uses Kate as its editor, but adds a LOT more memu options for text manipulation. The only thing that Kate/Quanta is missing that I REALLY need is macros.
Cool! I had not used quanta before, and did not know that it used kate-part. I will check it out. About the macros though... it will happen eventually... hopefully.
 
Old 02-17-2006, 04:55 AM   #39
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Quanta is my current editor of choice. Though, I usually use straight HTML (no PHP, CSS, etc) so I simply use Kate.

Last edited by scuzzman; 02-17-2006 at 04:56 AM.
 
Old 02-17-2006, 09:36 AM   #40
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Quanta all the way.
 
Old 02-19-2006, 05:54 AM   #41
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I've tried them all and it's still Vim. Vim. Vim.
 
Old 02-19-2006, 07:53 AM   #42
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FYI Quanta uses Kate as its editor, but adds a LOT more memu options for text manipulation. The only thing that Kate/Quanta is missing that I REALLY need is macros.
What do you mean by "macro". I am not trying to be pendantic here, it's just that the term "macro" often has different meanings in different contexts. I can create an Action that inputs text blocks, wraps selected text around the selected text, sends the selected text or the whole file through an external script (i.e.perl) and the replaces the selection with the output of the script and so forth.

What is it that you want to do?
 
Old 02-19-2006, 06:11 PM   #43
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What do you mean by "macro". I am not trying to be pendantic here, it's just that the term "macro" often has different meanings in different contexts. I can create an Action that inputs text blocks, wraps selected text around the selected text, sends the selected text or the whole file through an external script (i.e.perl) and the replaces the selection with the output of the script and so forth.

What is it that you want to do?
I'm talking about a playback/record feature. Being able to script an action (which technically is a macro, but not in the classic application sense) is fine and all, but it's so time consuming in comparison to TextPad's recording of a couple of actions, then you can go back and edit it to tweak it if you like, and then you can run it against the selection, play through to the end of file, or repeat (n) number of times. All without wasting time writing the skeleton of the script.

In some cases scripting is by far the superior solution,but when it comes to macros, which are intended to save time, having to stop and write code to manipulate your code (or tabular data, or whatever) is idiotic as coding the macro by hand can often take longer than simply editing the text by hand.
 
Old 02-21-2006, 01:09 PM   #44
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Macros

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Cool! I had not used quanta before, and did not know that it used kate-part. I will check it out. About the macros though... it will happen eventually... hopefully.
What do you mean about macros? Quanta supports code snippets in a various way (actions or abbreviations). If you talk about scriptability, then you can write scripts to modify the content of the document(s) with the DCOP interfaces provided by Quanta and the Kate part.
 
Old 02-21-2006, 01:27 PM   #45
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I'm talking about a playback/record feature. Being able to script an action (which technically is a macro, but not in the classic application sense) is fine and all, but it's so time consuming in comparison to TextPad's recording of a couple of actions, then you can go back and edit it to tweak it if you like, and then you can run it against the selection, play through to the end of file, or repeat (n) number of times. All without wasting time writing the skeleton of the script.
I don't know about such feature in whole KDE and I believe this should not be application specific, but something provided by the base libraries.
 
  


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