[ubuntu-uk] NVU

[Tony Arnold]

TheVeech wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 11:48 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> Dave Walker wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:22 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
>>>> baz wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> <SNIP>
>>>> 
>>>> Any idea why NVU is not in the repositories for Feisty?
>>>> 
>>>> <SNIP>
>>> It's been dropped from the repositories as it is "Umaintained by 
>>> upstream."[1]
>>> 
>>> It hasn't been updated since 28-06-2005 however there is an
>>> unofficial bug-fix release called KompoZer[2], but that hasn't
>>> been updated since 2006-07-26.
>>> 
>>> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393065 [2]
>>> http://kompozer.net/
>> That's a shame, I liked NVU! I'll have to look for a different html
>>  editor now. Everyone seems to rave about Bluefish, but it's not
>> WYSIWYG so far as I can tell.
> 
> Screem (http://www.screem.org/) is an excellent editor.  You don't 
> really need WYSIWYG, since it's easy to check things in your browser.
>  In fact Screem's that good that I don't know why more people don't 
> promote it.  Bluefish is okay, but I'd choose Screem every time - 
> there's nothing to stop you using/trying both.

That appears not to have been touched since 2nd November 2005, at least
according to its project page on sourceforge.

What has always irritated me in some editors is the difficulty of
removing or changing existing tags, and sometimes adding an opening and
closing tag around an existing piece of text. Maybe I've just never
figured it out, but this was dead easy in NVU.

I'll keep playing!

Regards,
Tony.
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