Portable HTML editor?

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Eric

I'm looking for an HTML editor (not WYSIWYG) with page preview ability
that I can put on my USB flash drive.

I found text editors on portablefreeware.com (thanks for the great
site) but not one that previews.

Any ideas?
 
I'm looking for an HTML editor (not WYSIWYG) with page preview ability
that I can put on my USB flash drive.

I found text editors on portablefreeware.com (thanks for the great
site) but not one that previews.

Any ideas?
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PSPad might do you - it appears to take about 8megs HD space, but it's no-
install, a very nice colour coded editor, with Tidy, and it previews.

There's another, either notetab light or notepad++, that preview, but I
can't recomember which or how big or if it installs.

OTOH, there are surely smaler ones....

mike
 
Portable NVU is WSYSIWYG oriented. A lot of the editing features don't
work in "source" mode.
 
PSPad looks promissing. I had to switch to the beta since the
word-wrap has been turned off in the "stable" release.

It looks like a good editor and it has a preview. However, it is
missing all the helpful little HTML things like the ability to highlite
some text and click on a button to add the italics tags around it.
Though you can drag a JPG file in and it does the tag for you. That's
nice.

Notetab light is TOO light. All the good stuff is in Pro.

Notepad++ doesn't have a preview and doesn't have any html assistants
 
PSPad looks promissing. I had to switch to the beta since the
word-wrap has been turned off in the "stable" release.
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I've got version 4.3.0 and wordwrap is fine.

I also like the HTML check and Tidy.

You might like to check TSW Webpad

http://www.tsware.net/software.php?showfull=yes&gid=2

It's a lightweight version of webcoder, and about a "meg d/l, but I don't
know how much space it takes or if it's truly portable.

You might like to tell us ;-)

mike
 
PSPad 4.3.3 had the wordwrap turned off because the developer says it's
"buggy." So far, the beta is behaving itself.

TSW Webpad does install one file to windows\system32. Silly since it
will look for it in its own directory if it isn't there. It seems to
be portable otherwise. But you have to install it, find the file, copy
it to the program directory, then copy everything and uninstall. It's
also registerware and does not have word-wrapping; something I need.
It's too bad since it has a nice way to add buttons to automate tag
creation. Drat.

So far, PSPad 4.5.0(beta) is almost what I want.
 
PSPad 4.3.3 had the wordwrap turned off because the developer says it's
"buggy." So far, the beta is behaving itself.

TSW Webpad does install one file to windows\system32. Silly since it
will look for it in its own directory if it isn't there. It seems to
be portable otherwise. But you have to install it, find the file, copy
it to the program directory, then copy everything and uninstall. It's
also registerware and does not have word-wrapping; something I need.
It's too bad since it has a nice way to add buttons to automate tag
creation. Drat.

So far, PSPad 4.5.0(beta) is almost what I want.
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You're right, I've had another look at these since your post.

They've definitely made PSPad worse, there's supposed to be a wrap but
there isn't, and even the line length setting doesn't work. And it's really
got far more funtions than I can handle, I *only* want a nice small colur
coded, previewing, browser calling, Editor with Tidy (I _love_ Tidy)

The Tidy function in TSW looks after wrap, but you have no real control.

Good job I've still got an ancient version of PSPad, but I'll try the beta

mike
 
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