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Subject: Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:29:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:25:49 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :


>> Yet, the most complex code that person could write, according to his own
>> claims, was a VBS script that did a simple word count (which, we all
>> know, can be accomplished with the wc macro in Vim, e.g., g+<control+G>.
> 
> Remember, the code I linked to was doing a count of the words of text in 
> an HTML file, ignoring markup.

Oh. Thanks. I stand corrected. Me culpa. 

I publicly apologize for deprecating the "wc" that you were discussing.

My mistake.

In my defense, I was concentrating on solving the problem, where writing a
VBS script to munge HTML wasn't likely to be the general purpose solution.

Back to the main topic, I think Herbert's general purpose solution works
for everyone on Mozilla-based web browsers, which is to define your
favorite HTML editor and then to bring it up in one step using Control+u.

In my case, that favorite editor is the venerable cross-platform gvim,
which, in my case, I've been using in some form or other for decades.

As described prior, I employ gvim macros to convert a template into a line
of HTML code for Amazon Vine orders <https://amazon.com/vine/about>.

That's my specific need - but - I'm always all about general purpose
solutions, where my proposal works as well for a platform-independent
browser-independent machine-independent global bookmarks.htm file.

I am currently using gvim, for example, to add to that bookmarks.htm file.
Each URL I want to add, I simply add it by copying & munging this template.
 <HR>
 <A HREF=https://foo.com/bar>foo bar</A><P>
 <HR>

With this method, a single bookmarks.htm file is used by the whole system.
The editing capability of gvim allows me to munge that HTML to do that.

I even posted this article (and every Usenet post) using telnet & gvim, 
since Marek Novotny (may he rest in peace) originally wrote my newsreader.

While gvim isn't intended to be an HTML editor, it would be nice to find a
free cross-platform simple-to-use yet powerful HTML editor for this task.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a good cross-platform free HTML editor?