Well I already purchased TextMate, so I was hoping there was a
solution using that. And a BBEdit license is $125 USD ($136.55 CAD).
Just a bit too much for a text editor in my opinion. Even though it's
a very good one.
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Brendan Duddridge | CTO | 403-277-5591 x24 | brenda..lickspace.com
ClickSpace Interactive Inc.
Suite L100, 239 - 10th Ave. SE
Calgary, AB T2G 0V9
On May 30, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________________
>> Brendan Duddridge | CTO | 403-277-5591 x24 | brenda..lickspace.com
>>
>> ClickSpace Interactive Inc.
>> Suite L100, 239 - 10th Ave. SE
>> Calgary, AB T2G 0V9
>>
>> http://www.clickspace.com
>>
>> 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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