XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:25:49 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :   
      
      
   >> Yet, the most complex code that person could write, according to his own   
   >> claims, was a VBS script that did a simple word count (which, we all   
   >> know, can be accomplished with the wc macro in Vim, e.g., g+.   
   >   
   > Remember, the code I linked to was doing a count of the words of text in   
   > an HTML file, ignoring markup.   
      
   Oh. Thanks. I stand corrected. Me culpa.   
      
   I publicly apologize for deprecating the "wc" that you were discussing.   
      
   My mistake.   
      
   In my defense, I was concentrating on solving the problem, where writing a   
   VBS script to munge HTML wasn't likely to be the general purpose solution.   
      
   Back to the main topic, I think Herbert's general purpose solution works   
   for everyone on Mozilla-based web browsers, which is to define your   
   favorite HTML editor and then to bring it up in one step using Control+u.   
      
   In my case, that favorite editor is the venerable cross-platform gvim,   
   which, in my case, I've been using in some form or other for decades.   
      
   As described prior, I employ gvim macros to convert a template into a line   
   of HTML code for Amazon Vine orders .   
      
   That's my specific need - but - I'm always all about general purpose   
   solutions, where my proposal works as well for a platform-independent   
   browser-independent machine-independent global bookmarks.htm file.   
      
   I am currently using gvim, for example, to add to that bookmarks.htm file.   
   Each URL I want to add, I simply add it by copying & munging this template.   
    
   
    foo bar
   
    
   
      
   With this method, a single bookmarks.htm file is used by the whole system.   
   The editing capability of gvim allows me to munge that HTML to do that.   
      
   I even posted this article (and every Usenet post) using telnet & gvim,   
   since Marek Novotny (may he rest in peace) originally wrote my newsreader.   
      
   While gvim isn't intended to be an HTML editor, it would be nice to find a   
   free cross-platform simple-to-use yet powerful HTML editor for this task.   
      
   Does anyone have a suggestion for a good cross-platform free HTML editor?   
      
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