This is Pre formatted. Editra v0.3.15
The systax highlighting gets in the way of editing. There is a blinking line corsor, but it is hard to see. This beta wanted me to do updates. I applied updates, but it said that they failed. This does not do tag pair completion as do many other editors for HTML. It is inteneded to handle about 60 langage formats. I turned on java and perl, but this is HTML.
There is no DTD for HTML, so it is anybody's guess if this markup is going to get checked by other than the browser. The browser is known about from the preferences and there is a view item in the main menu. We will see what it does. It doesn't fork the browser, so editing, saving and reloading the document from the browser works. There is no color editor so you mess with the hex vlues on the color settings and get wierd results. I got it to blue text on a light grey background, but hey, today is Holloween!
Even though this editor will edit HTML, is is not primarily designed for it, and is is then not as good as Bluefish, or for that matter, Good 'OL Emacs.
The Holy Grail of IDEs is to have some kind of context help for coding. I just downloaded Komodo Edit 5, which is not the full IDE from Active State, and edited a small perl program based on the sample. I got to a place where I couldn't get help with what I wanted to do, take arguments and add them to an array and process that array. I had to resort to a book, the Perl 5 Pocket Guide from O'reilly, to get the answer, and that couldn't readily answer the next question, I wanted to add dimensions to the array and make it an associative array of nested attributes, key, value pairs. It would be nice to get some help on how to code relationships like that and what functions use them.
Netbeans has a good deal of this for java, but the GUI builder in Netbeans 6.1 needs help. I couldn't get code to work because it created associations between instances of Jlabel and Jvalues that got out of synch with the code I generated, and it hides the implemention code for those linkages, so there is not way to debug them. I have always suspected that Sun's code was flimsey, and here we are six years later and it is still true. I feel vindicated by this experience.
I decided to reedit this with Bluefish, the file has dark blue lettering on a blue-grey background.