Is Nvu any good ?

[Jim Richardson]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 21:27 -0400, Joshua Kogut wrote:
> Before I made the complete switch (I don't have a single system that
> runs Windows anymore), I used and loved Dreamweaver. In fact, it was
> one of the things that kept me back from switching.
> 
> But as Brian Astill said, it doesn't help you learn what you're doing,
> it's basically a crutch.
> 
> If you learn it [HTML/CSS] right, and start off writing yer code by
> hand, then you'll be far ahead of a vast majority of the so-called
> "designers" nowadays. 
> 
> I don't recommend vim immediately, for the learning curve is rather
> steep. Add that to the (apparent) difficulty most people have when
> starting off with HTML, and you'll only get frustrated. Try nano (NOT
> EMACS), gedit, or {insert command-line based editor}. I'm saying you
> should use a command-line based editor for a reason, it's because once
> you become familiar with the cli utilities, it'll make it far easier
> to ssh into your remote server and edit something live, instead of
> having to repeat the process my windows-savy boss has to do multiple
> times every day. 
>     
>     1) Open FTP Client (For some reason, he doesn't like explorer's
> functionality)
>     2) Connect to server
>     3) Navigate in the (commonly) clumsy interface to the directory
> you want to upload to 
>     4) Download the file(s).
>     5) Make appropriate modifications
>     6) Re-upload!
> 
> Compared to the process that i have to do to make a modification:
> 
>     1) Connect to server (SSH, of course) 
>     2) Navigate to the directory of the file to modify
>     3) Make appropriate modifications with favorite editor (vim <3)
> 
> 


Hm, I do things slightly different :)

Navigate to local copy of svn repo, edit file, commit to svn, run
prebuilt rsync script to sync new files to server(s) ;) 


-- 
Jim Richardson <warlock at eskimo.com>
Erisian Claw