Free HTML editor with include feature?

> Hi,
> My website has 20+ pages, most of them having a main menu on top and
> then secondary menus that depend on the page. I have been looking for
> a free HTML editor (text is more than enough) with a feature similar
> to Dreamweaver's library items, that is, including the contents of one
> file into another so that changes in the first will reflect in the
> second. I have seen SciTE cited somewhere as a possibility, but from
> what I see in their site it's not obvious at all how to use it as a
> text editor. Another one I have found is Arachnophilia, but after
> installing this one I can't find anything that will allow for these
> updates I may need. Any suggestions on these or other programs?

Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>

> On 2008-08-09, David Sevilla wrote:
> > Hi,
> > My website has 20+ pages, most of them having a main menu on top and
> > then secondary menus that depend on the page. I have been looking for
> > a free HTML editor (text is more than enough) with a feature similar
> > to Dreamweaver's library items, that is, including the contents of one
> > file into another so that changes in the first will reflect in the
> > second. I have seen SciTE cited somewhere as a possibility, but from
> > what I see in their site it's not obvious at all how to use it as a
> > text editor. Another one I have found is Arachnophilia, but after
> > installing this one I can't find anything that will allow for these
> > updates I may need. Any suggestions on these or other programs?
> I'd use server-side includes, rather than duplicate the code in
> multiple places.

>> On 2008-08-09, David Sevilla wrote:
>> > I have been looking for
>> > a free HTML editor (text is more than enough) with a feature similar
>> > to Dreamweaver's library items, that is, including the contents of one
>> > file into another
>> I'd use server-side includes
>
> I considered this, but I don't think this would work in the free
> webhost where I have my site.

Bergamot> Look into preprocessors. They allow you to use "include" files in
Bergamot> your source HTML files. You then run the sources through the
Bergamot> preprocessor and it generates new HTML files that you can upload to
Bergamot> the server. I find a preprocessor very handy for maintaining small
Bergamot> sites.

Bergamot> The one I've been using for several years now is GTML, which is
Bergamot> nothing more than a big perl script. If you're moving to linux, perl
Bergamot> should be no problem. There are other preprocessors, of course.