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Editors code completion other than, IDM brand,

which code complete from your HTML name attribute.

         

MarcMiller

10:56 pm on Sep 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Editors code completion other than, IDM brand, which code complete from your HTML name attribute.
Are there any? I have been demoing editors with code completion for JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. I am doing this cause I am a very poor speller but wish to make a career of what design. So I have been trying to learn JavaScript, CSS, and HTML as good as I can. I have have demoed , IDM brand, UEStudio '05 which can code complete from your previously typed values in the name attribute. See the nonsense code below. This is great, but there are other things this editor doesn't have which are great in other editors. The myeclipse editors for JavaScript, CSS, and HTML have an HTML code tree window available which shows you the code tree of your HTML tags. This could be great for using the dot syntax of JavaScript or making child selectors in CSS. It also gives you code category during code completion, I mean is it a method, or handler etc. The myeclipse editors also have a property window which lets you it attribute values in that window. Blumentals brand editors have about the same features of the myeclipse with the exception of the HTML code tree view. The Blumentals brand editors also seem a little buggy in their code completion. IDM brand editors have been iconic WYSIWYG interface which lacks a table icon. However you can insert the table tag from an alphabetical listing.

So I am looking for a recommendation on code completion editors. I would also like to hear from poor spellers who have learned JavaScript, CSS, and HTML better with the aid of a code completion editor. What do you think is most important would you put code completion on the name attribute high on your list.

<!-- "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>dot syntax play</title>

</head>

<body>
<form name="form2">
<input type="text" name="input1" value="name">
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
var tell=form2.input1.value;// written with code completion
window.document.write(tell);//written with code completion
/*]]>*/
</script>
</body>

SuzyUK

6:33 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



HI MarcMiller

Not sure what you're looking for, but NoteTab Light has a "clips" section which can be used to store frequently used syntax, either to be completed (allow variables) or as complete code snippets.

HTML-Kit can be set up to use hints so if you type in a starter hint it auto completes the rest of the code, ~ you have to "train" it first by putting in the correct snippets first though

I'm not sure if this is what you're after though, if so then some editors probably do similar things

Suzy