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Using external HTML editors
You may want to use a text editor to hand-code large amounts of HTML,
JavaScript, or VBScript. You can use any external text editor with Dreamweaver,
including Notepad (bundled with Windows 95 and NT) or SimpleText (bundled
with the Macintosh), BBEdit, HomeSite, vi, emacs, and TextPad. See “Using an
external text editor with Dreamweaver” on page 350 and “Using BBEdit with
Dreamweaver (Macintosh only)” on page 351.
Using an external text editor with Dreamweaver
You can launch your primary external text editor from Dreamweaver to edit the
source HTML for the current document and then switch back to Dreamweaver to
continue editing graphically. Dreamweaver detects any changes that have been
saved to the document externally and prompts you to reload the document
upon returning.
If you use BBEdit on the Macintosh, follow the steps in “Using BBEdit with
Dreamweaver (Macintosh only)” on page 351 instead of the following steps.
To set up external editors for file types other than text and HTML, see
“Launching an external editor” on page 298.
To choose an external HTML editor:
1
Choose Edit > Preferences, and select File Types/Editors.
2
(Macintosh only) To use an HTML editor other than BBEdit, deselect the
Enable BBEdit Integration option. To use BBEdit, leave Enable BBEdit
Integration selected and skip the rest of these steps.
3
Click the Browse button next to the External Code Editor box to choose
a text editor.
4
In the Reload Modified Files option, specify what you want Dreamweaver to
do when it detects that changes have been made externally to a document that
is open in Dreamweaver.
5
In the Save on Launch option, specify whether Dreamweaver should always
save the current document before launching the editor, never save the
document, or prompt you to ask whether to save or not each time you launch
the external editor.
To launch the external HTML editor:
Choose Edit > Edit with (editor name).
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