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?
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.
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.
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.