HTML5 Markup Editor

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OldM3ta

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Suggestions for HTML5 editor with advanced editor features? I want to write markup and still have some of the nice features modern code editors have.

I saw Aloha online, but it fails to allow you to code HTML5 source. What do you recommend?
 
What kind of features are you looking for? Besides line numbers and syntax coloring, I can't think of what else is really necessary. However, we obviously have different preferences.

I usually just use Notepad++ for web stuff.
 
Seconding Notepad++. Does all I need and more. I make HTML(5) with it every day.
 
Auto-completion (intellisense), tag delimiter insertion, collapsable/expandable code sections. I come from C++ where stuff like what's included in Visual Assist makes coding so easy.

(Appreciate the two Notepad++ suggestions. Any plugins or addons that you two use?)
 
I personally haven't looked into plugins for it. I know there are many available however. There is an XML Formatting plugin that will work of HTML, and it takes care of all the indentation. A friend of mine uses that. You'd just have to play around a bit.
 
I use Dreamweaver and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express depending on the project I am working on. 2010 is free for developers and handles HTML 5 just fine, you just set the "target schema for validation" to HTML 5 and you are good with the intellisense and stuff. You may want to modify your Site.master file slightly (if you are using a master) the first time.
 
I just use notepad++. In "settings -> preferences", see the "backup/auto-completion" and "misc" tabs for "auto-indent", "smart highlighting", "highlight matching tags" and "function auto-complete".

It doesn't have any HTML5 stuff. But, if you use the macro recording and type HTML5 markup and save it, you can create an HTML5 document macro that you can easily invoke when you want to start a new HTML5 document. You can also edit "plugins/api/html.xml" in the program files directory to add more auto-complete keywords if you really need to.

On the "tab settings" tab, you can set it to insert 4 spaces instead of a tab character.

On the "new document" tab, you can set unix + utf-8 without BOM + "apply to opened ansi files".

I don't really use any notepad++ plug-ins. I just use the default stuff with the config above. But, I don't really use the auto-complete and all that for HTML. Markup is easy and fast to type and it's easy to remember everything, so I haven't needed to use auto-complete for it.
 
I use MS Visual Web Developer 2010 Express and Aptana.
 
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