What is your choice for a html editor

[Webdiggity]

I grabbed Bluefish last night but I haven't played with it yet. Does anyone know if it contains an FTP utility like the other editors out there?

If not, what is a good FTP utility for Linux? Since I'm a total noobit, if it already has one installed just point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
Webby

[Linux Frank]

For HTML editing ... why Vim of course

A text editor should be clean and simple, and work. I don't use anything that is graphical orientated, but then I am only playing around at the moment, but Mozilla composer is supposed to be alright as a WYSIWYG. and Quanta and bluefish have been touted as good for HTML editing at a professional level.

Your could try ftp.

open up a terminal and type

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man ftp

that should provide you with a starting point.

If you visit the man pages on this forum you can search them, and that will list up other types that might be more what you are after.

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/man/

Is that what you are after?

[Void Main]

Yep, VIM is my favorite and I usually edit the HTML right on the server through an ssh session so there is no need to transfer files. If you do have to transfer files to your server please use an encrypted protocol (not FTP). I use "scp" for transferring files or you can use sftp which is also an ssh client, you can even do it graphically by "ssh://yourserver" in Gnome or "fish://yourserver" in konqueror if you use KDE. Of course RedHat 9 comes with a couple of nice graphical HTML editors if that is what you are in to. They should be right on the menu if you did a full install (or installed them individually) like Quanta. Or a basic syntax highlighted notepad like editor is "kate" or "kwrite".

[Master of Reality]

I used to use vim but i have a hard time remembering all the commands and stuff.. I still use it on my server to directly edit the pages on there.
I use kate when i am playing around with stuff before i upload it on my server, but recently i have been using mozilla composer, editing only the HTML but i like how it shows a preview right away for me.

[Void Main]

I used to use vim but i have a hard time remembering all the commands and stuff.. I still use it on my server to directly edit the pages on there.
I use kate when i am playing around with stuff before i upload it on my server, but recently i have been using mozilla composer, editing only the HTML but i like how it shows a preview right away for me.

Good call. I keep forgetting about that one, and it's probably the best GUI editor. It even has a "publish" feature so it answers Webdiggity's questions directly.

[Linux Frank]

On a related note:

http://www.theregister.com/content/4/32780.html

Which might explain my fondness for it. Oh yeah the guy also wrote the TCP/IP stack for BSD, so beloved of so many OSs.

[Void Main]

Very nice article. And I remember those days...

[Calum]

i like bluefish in rh and quanta in slack.
if i use bluefish in slack or quanta in rh it hangs and crashes awfully.and what's the other one?screem, that's it. awfully unstable in my experience.

i prefer bluefish in a pinch though.

as for ftp, i tend to use either gftp or ftp (from CLI) or if forced to use windows, i use filezilla, it is open source and is solid as a rock. you can choose to save the settings in an xml file so it operates without using the (YUK) windows registry.