From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 03:38:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40641065672 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 732BD8FC17 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m813cxGm058430; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:38:47 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: prad Message-ID: <20080901033847.GB50745@thought.org> References: <20080831224710.GA42854@thought.org> <20080831175840.30c63637@gom.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080831175840.30c63637@gom.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: kline@thought.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bluefish question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:38:56 -0000 On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:58:40PM -0700, prad wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:47:14 -0700 > Gary Kline wrote: > > > and/or is there an easier markup editor > > in ports? > > > hi gary! > > i tried bluefish, but didn't like it personally. > > kde's quanta is excellent and has lots of convenient features and uses > the very advanced kate as a basis - you don't have to run kde in order > to run kde programs. if you liked bluefish, i think you'll really like > quanta. > > despite my fondness for quanta, i have ended up using emacs for the > past several years with the built-in html-mode (or you can splurge with > html-helper mode, though i found it a bit too elaborate). emacs > might take a bit more work to figure out in the beginning but it is a > really good all-purpose editor because it is as extensible as it is. > AND:: I used bluefish a few years ago, then went to quanta and finally settled on (/usr/ports/www/kompozer) Kompozer. Kompozer is an udate to nvu (which was the composer module in Mozilla) as a standalone application. It still produces source code with some Netscapeisms, but it isn't anything that isn't easily cleaned up (when necessary --like to produce html e-mail) in an editor like kate, or kedit. Tim Guys, thanks for your help. I already managed to put in by vi (and ".") the 45 or so
and
. Still wonder what's wrong with bluefish, but glad there are others. There are a bunch of font things to add to my prototype HTML/PHP file, so lots to play with. gary ps: to bore you with yet-another-FWIW: this is v2 of my jottings stuff :-) > -- > In friendship, > prad > > ... with you on your journey > Towards Freedom > http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) > Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org