One caveat with the current version of BBEdit is that the Format
command lowercases all the tags, so the inline stuff like
<wo:ERXEqualConditional ... > gets rewritten as lowercase, so I have
only used the shortcuts like <wo:if ...> etc and for one or two
inline mixed case class name ones that I really, really wanted (rare
anyway), I make a lowercase shortcut alias to make sure I can happily
continue to clean up formatting using BBEdit. Other than that, the
BBEdit html format seems to be generic enough to handle any tags
thrown at it.... I like the resulting format.
(Mike S., if you are interested in seeing how BBEdit reformats for
inspiration, the downloadable demo version lasts a month if you don't
have a copy already)
Regarding being too expensive ...... sure, I hate paying for stuff,
especially if I am not going to use it every day or week, but for ~
$80 or whatever it is, I have definitely recouped my money's worth in
the time since I switched to WOLips.... and I like it for editing
bash scripts too, although the free TextWrangler from the same
company is nice too, but does not have the HTML format utility.
Sth less than $50 is easy to justify, less than $100 is easy
too ......... it's the $500 stuff like JProfiler just chokes me to
open my wallet. Wish they would sell it for $99 or sth like that.
Cheers, Kieran
On May 30, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Brendan Duddridge wrote:
> Hi Lachlan,
>
> I also use TextMate, but I can't get the HTML Tidy command to work
> at all if there are any WO tags in the HTML. Do you know if there's
> a new HTML Tidy plug-in that fixes this? Whenever I try, all my
> HTML disappears in the TextMate window. BBEdit is too expensive.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> On May 29, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
>
>> On 30/05/2007, at 1:20 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, as I work on projects that have components created long ago
>>> in WOBuilder, every time I need to edit a component that is not
>>> formatted legibly (for example long horizontal lines), I have
>>> found that using BBEdit to format it (takes about 20 seconds) is
>>> worth the trouble. I basically have a BbEdit window always open
>>> with the HTML file type selected at bottom of the window. http://
>>> www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/demo.shtml
>>>
>>> Then in Eclipse I do a Cmd-A to select all the component HTML,
>>> paste into the BbEdit window, Cmd-A again to select all of what I
>>> just pasted in BBEdit, then select Markup/Utilities/Format menu,
>>> then Cmd-X to cut, then switch back to Eclipse (Cmd-tab), then
>>> paste Cmd-V. Now I have a nice hierarchially formatted html that
>>> is easier to work with.
>>
>> You might prefer doing this:
>> a) Preferences > General > File Associations > *.html
>> b) click Add... (Associated Editors)
>> c) click external programs, Browse... (I've chosen /usr/local/bin/
>> mate for TextMate)
>> d) click Default (optional)
>> e) if not default, right-click on file and select Open With >
>> 'editorOfChoice'.
>> g) if you save the file in the external program eclipse knows.
>>
>> That should save you a lot of copying/pasting.
>>
>>> Hopefully someday, we will have a format command in WOLips that
>>> will perform a similar style formatting.
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>>> On May 29, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
>>>
>>>> is there anything available that would toggle soft-wrapping the
>>>> html in the component editor?
>>>>
>>>> Currently I get no wrapping at all which is often fine but there
>>>> are times when I'd like to use a softwrap to save the horizontal
>>>> scrolling.
>>
>> with regards,
>> --
>>
>> Lachlan Deck
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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