Word wrapping of HTML source

[ed_larrabee]

The source (HTML) view of a topic is always formatted with extra carriage returns and tabs. I appreciate the fact that the lines of html are word wrapped. However, I don't need or want all these extra formatting characters. It makes search and replace very difficult. Can I disable this feature?

[Captiv8r]

Hi Ed

Unfortunately there is no way I'm aware of to influence a change in this behavior.

Cheers... Rick

[MergeThis]

Most code editors use tabs and colors as does RH (this is what is needed when dealing with markup languages).

There are good multi-line (usually with Starting, Ending, Including, Not Including options) products out there. I use FAR, and others on the forum use the free BK ReplaceEm tool.


Good luck,
Leon

[ed_larrabee]

I agree that there are other good text editors. However, the WYSIWYG part of the Robohelp editor is very good. It is just a pain to try to do multi-file search and replace operations, when the files have unpredictable numbers of CRs and Tabs inserted into the text.

[MergeThis]

It is what it is.

Investigate the two Find&Replace tools I mentioned, or see if you can find something else more to your liking.


Good luck,
Leon

[Margaret_Becker]

I use EditPlus for these operations. You can search multiple files, replace Breaks and <p> and do other searches quickly. In addition, it has a very nice macro function for tweaking blocks of text.

You can also deal with hhk and other text-based files. This is very useful for changing a whole wad of broken links at once including links in the hhc and hhk files.

I can open stuff in EditPlus while RoboHTML is running. RoboHTML's editor also does a nice job of deleting unmatched formating openers like <span> <blockquote> <p>, etc. As soon as you save the EditPlus file, RoboHTML updates the page.

In addition, EditPlus will open hundreds of files at once.