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Posted by Mike Me
Mike Me
5,148 Points

What free Text Editor Should I use?

Please help me to find proper text editor for creating websites using Html, CSS and Javascript. Lately I downloaded Atom but found it difficult to use, I could not even figure out how to preview what I did. I want something plain and common. I'm Mac user.

5 Answers

simon lavery
simon lavery
17,485 Points
simon lavery
simon lavery
17,485 Points

Brackets was the first text editor i used its a bit easier to find you way around.

Mike Me
Mike Me
5,148 Points
Mike Me
Mike Me
5,148 Points

I need something very familiar to workspace. Something like auto completing your code and so on.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points

I've heard that brackets is very nice. It has a lot of features specifically for web development.

I'd probably be using it myself if I didn't already have decades of experience with GVim and it's ancestry. I recommend that also with the caveat that it has a somewhat steep initial learning curve. But if you do want to try it, there are several online tutorials, and one is cleverly disguised as a game.

Mike Me
Mike Me
5,148 Points
Mike Me
Mike Me
5,148 Points

Thank Guys, I think I'm gonna be using Brackets. I it pretty friendly for beginners like me. Can you please give some links where I could learn how to navigation through this text editor?(Brackets)

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

Notepad++ is the one i always go back to.

I like that with Notepadd++ you can save your work and then load up a local preview file in your browser so you can check out your page before uploading to a server. I've never seen that functionality in any other text editor.