Quanta (Was: Re: OS X to Linux transition - Help needed!)

[William C. Taggart]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Keary Suska wrote:

> on 7/3/02 1:08 PM, wtaggar@uark.edu purportedly said:
>
> > Quanta rocks by the way. It is better that BBEdit...wish I would get it
> > for YDL>
>
> I have been looking for something comparable to BBEdit, but haven't been
> able to find anything decent, so perhaps the Quanta diehards can help answer
> some questions.
>
> 1) Does it work with anything other than HTML (namely: JavaScript, XML,
> C/++, Perl PHP)?

yes, absolutely...check out the web site at
http://www.thekompany.com/products/quanta.


> 2) Does it provide function popups with distinction between definitions and
> prototypes?

not so sure about this one.

> 3) Can you perform multi-file search/replace with at least the same kind of
> functionality as BBEdit?

I'm not sure...this is something that BBEdit does really well.

> 4) Is its open from/save to FTP functionality intelligent (e.g., BBEdit's
> implementation is very inefficient, having to go through the entire
> authentication process for every connection attempt, including just getting
> a listing for the save dialog as well as uploading the file)?

here is a screenshot
http://www.thekompany.com/products/quanta/_img/screenshots/ftp_connection_select.gif,
but I'm not sure about your request for totally authentication free
connections.

> 5) What kind of automation/scripting hooks are there?
>
> I assume that Quanta supports at least POSIX extended regexes with callbacks
> (PCRE would be best), paren balancing, and at least hooks for syntax
> checking and automatic execution (executing or compiling/executing from the
> application). Otherwise it wouldn't be worth the time to even install. Of
> course, these things matter to code developers more than web designers.

this is kind of out of my league as far as web page design. I like very
simple stuff, so I can't really answer this. Quanta apparently started out
as a very simple HTML editor and has been progessively adding more
features. The thing I like the most about it is that it does add anything
to your code: you get what you write.

will taggart
comp.uark.edu/~wtaggar


> Keary Suska
> Esoteritech, Inc.
> "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
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