Tools of the trade on the *nix platform?

[Nikolas Britton]

Josef El-Rayes wrote:

>Nikolas Britton <freebsd at nbritton.org>:
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>>I'm a bit perplexed at what tools I should look at for web/html 
>>authoring stuff as I just (finally, been playing with BSD since 4.7) 
>>switched all the main computers around me to FreeBSD (Gnome 2.8 and XFce 
>>4.2.... GTK2) from Windows when 5.3 was released.
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>>For generating layout and large amounts of code I'd use Dreamweaver or 
>>some other popular WYSIWYG editor.
>>For generating CSS code I'd use Bradbury's TopStyle.
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>you dont need these wysiwyg editors, they create bad code.
>write the code yourself. the only help you need is an editor
>that has proper syntax highlighting and helps you with indenting.
>i use vi(m). i heard emacs is good too.
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>-josef
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lol, I knew someone was going to say that!

I like perl, what's that tell you? :-) Most of the time I do use a 
programmers editor but for large amounts of code generation and layout 
(Like  starting a brand new site or playing with layout ideas) you can't 
beat it! As far as bad code, the only code thats bad code is one that 
doesn't validate at W3C. did you read my whole post?, guess I should have 
started with the programmers editor and ended with the wysiwyg.