XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: newyana@invalid.nospam   
      
   On 1/15/2025 4:20 AM, Marion wrote:   
   > If it takes 2 steps to do something; that's twice as much as it should;   
      
     You must be a barrel of fun as a lover and a chef. :)   
      
   > Hence, I'm trying to reduce the following interaction to a single step.   
   >   
   > STEP 1: Win+R > gvine   
   > STEP 2: Click on the backgrounded icon on the taskbar   
   >   
   > What I need to know, in order to reduce those two steps to one is... Why   
   > does Windows edit this file in the background (not foreground)?   
   >   
   > Note: It comes up in one step if I used the default editor, but I don't   
   > want to use Firefox as the default editor (unless Firefox has an editor?).   
   >   
   > Here's the situation... (which I would think others would also have)...   
   >   
      
      My approach -- just one option -- is that I have a half dozen   
   context menu items for all files (HKCR\*) that are like Open with   
   Notepad, Open with Paint Shop Pro, Open with HxD, etc.  So I can   
   open any file in the program I want with just a right click/click.   
      
      In the rare occasions when I need the Run window, it's one   
   of 4 items on my Start Menu, so there's no need for hotkeys.   
      
     If you're going to edit HTML very often it makes sense to find   
   an HTML-specific editor with syntax highlighting at the very   
   least. The trouble with generic editors like vim, emacs, notepad++,   
   etc, is that they're really just text editors that support rudimentary   
   colorcoding for 50 languages. Like a 50-bit screwdriver, they don't   
   work very well for any particular screw.   
      
        I just tried Vim for the   
   first time. It looks like a relic from 1980, without even support for   
   non-fixed-width fonts. Really? That's your favorite editor? Few people   
   actually hand-code HTML anymore, but there must still be decent   
   editors around.   
      
       I took a look out of curiosity. At DDG, the whole first   
   page of results was links to online editors! It seems CoffeeCup Free is   
   still out there. I never tried it, but it was popular at one time.   
      
     The trouble with this kind of thing is that the reviewers don't know the   
   products. One site rated Notepad++ #1, with no HTML-specific functionality,   
   yet with some other editors they complained that there wasn't built-in   
   FTP. Another best-of site lists Vim and Atom along with Dreamweaver.   
   They rated Sublime Text #1 for customizability, even though it, too,   
   is only a general editor. Putting Dreamweaver on the same list with the   
   others is like listing MSPaint with Photoshop. Only someone who's never   
   edited photos would do that.   
      
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