That is a good point, I never thought about half of them. It would be really good if it had auto completion. That is a really great feature.

Context autocompletion is ok, but autoclose and auto 'put what should be here' drives me crazy... In Quantra (and I think Dreamweaver) putting <table> throws in a <tr><td></td></td></tr> aswell by default,

Quantra's auto "sanitise" code is terrible aswell... Imagine if every time you close an element, the editor tries to find the corresponding start tag, and replaces its tagname with whatever you closed with... Now imagine it doing that if you're typing tags in 'backwards' for whatever reason.

At least it's easy to turn off...

Context CSS assistance in Quantra is pretty terrible aswell.. It assumes that, whatever style you're defining, after every prop:value; line, you want the first alphabetic property in there aswell (background). And no keypress will stop it putting that background: line into the style. You actually have to use the mouse to get rid of it. Almost makes me wish I used VI instead =P

With context and autocomplete, it has to have been well written and rigourously tested or it's better turned off. Dreamweaver's is quite well done, but I find it's not particularly configurable.

For a good freeware web editor try: AceHTML 5 and HTML-Kit(this one is really very good).

I quite like the dreamweaver auto complete for the css but the html close tag drives me MAD.

If only they could understand what we were thinking...

Then u must try MPS HTML GATE or MPS PHP DESIGNER

I tried HTMLGATE and it was really quite good. Nice interface and I really like that color pallet.

You can download it here http://www.softpedia.com/progDownloa...nload-119.html

(it was really quite hard to find one that worked!)

Thanks Vishesh

Well, for the past few years, i worked with several editors and all, and the thing i noticed that every editor has its own unique feature, atleast one. e.g. I like UltraEdit for its intendations, HomeSite+ for many thing, WeBuilder(Which i currently use, and i love it). You would like HapEdit if you write asp applications etc etc...

Oh yes, i like editors which loads fastly, works fastly, good interface, have some tools,intendation and syntax highlighting.

Due to lack of speed, i dont use DW

Visual studio?

Its a major competitor to dreamweaver in terms of features...

Well, till now I have used Visual InterDev 6, and it was reallly good in view of that age. I havn't used Visual WebDeveloper yet, but i have Visual c++ 2005, and the html editing is really good, i mean superb intendations and all, so WebDeveloper must be rocking.

Please tell me about it.