Text Editor?

[virtualkiwi]

I know this is semi- off topic, but I know coders are most likely to have an answer.

What text editor do you use?
I've been using Homesite for years, but Adobe have discontinued it recently, and the version I'm using is even more ancient than the version Adobe dumped.
My version of Homesite does everything I need except for one thing: Code folding. With big scripts it can be inefficient to hunt around to find a function.
I've evaluated a whole lot of text editors, and quite honestly I've been disappointed.
Most are generic text editors with html support tacked on as an afterthought, and many while they support a large variety of syntax highlighting don't allow you to define your own.
I need a text editor that understands HTML/Mivascript tags, that supports custom syntax highlighting for THE WHOLE TAG (NOT just the tag name)
In Homesite for example I have <mvfunction></mvfunction> tags highlighted in green so I can easily see where functions start and end. I do likewise with database tags.
Most other editors I've seen will allow me to have mvfunction highlighted but not the whole tag. When a tag has a number of attributes, it's easier to miss it if you can only highlight the tag name, and not the full tag.
Given how pervasive HTML and XML are these days, I'm surprised how hard it is to find a decent customisable editor that understands tag based languages.

Any ideas?

[aGorilla]

Re: Text Editor?

UltraEdit would probably be your best bet.

Personally, I use Boxer, but it doesn't support code-folding (although you can get a list of function names).

[d_host]

Re: Text Editor?

Take a look at Coda - http://www.panic.com/coda/

It's more than just an editor. You can add code folding to it as well as other nifty things with a bit of custom code snippets.

[aGorilla]

Re: Text Editor?

Just what I needed, another reason to want to buy a Mac.

[d_host]

Re: Text Editor?

=8-)

The evil plot _is_ working! Muuaaaaahhahahaaa!!!

[Biffy]

Re: Text Editor?

For a Mac you can't beat BBEdit. Been using it for years. It does everything and does it all quite well.

[Kent Multer]

Re: Text Editor?

I use SciTE. Very powerful, and free. I'm pretty sure it does code folding, although I don't use that myself.

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

[RayYates]

Re: Text Editor?

I use Textpad.

You can create your own libraries for code and it has many user submitted clip libraries available including MivaScript, OpenUI Tokens, Javascript, PHP and more.

It supports color syntax coding for many languages and again their are user submitted syntax files for MivaScript.

You can also get to to trigger external programs and/or batch files like the MivaScript Compiler.

[Dramatic]

Re: Text Editor?

Editplus 3 - www.editplus.com

- Has code-folding (based on indentation)
- configurable function detection (hotkey for a list of functions to navigate to)
- cliptext libraries
- you can define the miva compiler as a tool.

[texasguy]

Re: Text Editor?

Notepad++ is a free and feature full editor

[lesliekirk]

This is an old, old but relevant question still to this day. I have a store owner that only knows how to use Expressions. He wants to be able to copy and paste "grids" that he updates that will have links to his products. (My idea is to create these grids using custom fields for each product so he doesn't have to touch the grid code). But then he will want to copy and paste other code for places like the header/footer and product description. Yes, I know the product description has it's on "Rich Text Editor" but he wants to copy and paste his creations. To complicate matters just a bit more, the site uses Storyteller which is it's own cornerstoneUX spinoff.

LOL, even in 2020, it's still a problem.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

ok, the coffee was very tasty today but maybe not so strong. Do they just want to copy HTML source from THEIR RTF into miva fields, or do they need RTF like abilities while IN the actual miva field. Or is this a case of having the RTF editor actually work like the Expressions AND pickup the styles actually used in the site.

[lesliekirk]

ok, the coffee was very tasty today but maybe not so strong. Do they just want to copy HTML source from THEIR RTF into miva fields, or do they need RTF like abilities while IN the actual miva field. Or is this a case of having the RTF editor actually work like the Expressions AND pickup the styles actually used in the site.

All the coffee (or Kraken Black Roast) in the world may not help.

Within the Miva Admin, in the ReadyTheme Content sections, a WYSIWYG editor that wouldn't touch the section or article tags, properly formatted the text, be able to enter an image path into the img src, then add the appropriate alt tag, hiding anything mvt - in a ReadyTheme Content Section would be fabulous.

For the Category Header / Footers the same would be great but I don't have time for someone to come up with a Miva friendly WYSIWYG. In years past the store owner used Expressions and would copy the entire page that it creates from <html> to </html> (he is still doing it even after being told it's the body content).

Miva had suggested Dreamweaver (too huge of a learning curve if you don't know what you are looking for). Also suggested was

Brackets.io
BlueGriffon
Code Academy - Free courses start with HTML from intro to CSS and Java

There is no time for this sort of learning curve and wanting to launch the site next month.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Yes, dealing with the different abilities of store owners is not a 'fun' part of our jobs. Lately, I just try to convince them that a professional store should have a professional creating content for it :).

[lesliekirk]

Yes, dealing with the different abilities of store owners is not a 'fun' part of our jobs. Lately, I just try to convince them that a professional store should have a professional creating content for it :).

Maybe I should have you talk to this store owner