Best HTML editor

I've been sorting through the various HTMl editors (Screem, Quanta, NVu, and Bluefish) and I can't decide on the right one. I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 btw. Nvu doesnt handle PHP files well. Quanta crashes a lot. Bluefish is nice and stable, but doesnt have a nice preview feature built in.

I dont necessarily need WYSIWYG/VPL but I want to be able to look at what im doing once in a while, with not looking at straight code. For some reason, opening a PHP file for viewing in Firefox causes Firefox to want to open it (how could I remedy that btw?).

Any suggestions on what I should use. I do mostly PHP/HTML btw.

Nothing better than Vi! But I do like Quanta Plus. Where'd you get it? Did you build it from source, distro package, or what? You should try compiling a stable version or one with support for your hardware/config.

Quanta is very good. It works fine for me on Suse, Fedora Core and FreeBSD. I am guessing your problem could be K/Ubuntu specific.

I've never had a Quanta crash. But then again, I normally use Vi(m, elvis).

I use blue fish and I think it rocks...it also works for all sorts of languages e.g. php xml perl etc.

I've been using Bluefish since i posted this, it's pretty nice for some simple editing.

the only thing I could think about to remedy your case is to keep the file open in Firefox, and when you wanna look at it, save, then refresh your firefox.

I've done that when I used to use notepad to write html.

Amaya is also nice. You can also browse through the Firefox extensions, if you are looking for something basic.