SCREEM

SCREEM is a web development environment.

It's purpose is to increase productivity when constructing a site, by providing quick access to commonly used features. While it is written for use with the GNOME desktop environment in mind it does not specifically require you to be running it, just have the libraries installed.

Unlike most other web site / HTML editors SCREEM does not provide a WYSIWYG display of pages. Instead you are presented with the raw html source in its editor window.

In general WYSIWYG editors do not produce good clean valid HTML, and can also slow you down if they do not support an element that you wish to insert. By utilising a text based editing system you can use the markup you want rather than what the application thinks you need, and also provide quick access to commonly used elements via toolbar buttons which insert the markup at the current cursor position.

In addition to excelling as an HTML editor, SCREEM also lends itself to being a versatile XML editing package, perfect for use as a general purpose structured data editing environment.

Main Features:

Broken Link Checking
A "link view" is provided which shows all the links in the current page, and links in those pages, to a user definable depth. The link view also shows if a link is accessible or not, or if the file needs uploading if the upload wizard is being utilised for the site being worked on.

CTags Support
Support is also included for utilising ctag files. The symbols side bar will provide quick access to functions and the files they are in, as well as autocompletion support for symbols from documents of the same type as the one being worked on.

This requires that the ctags program is installed on your system and only works if the site isn't being edited on a remote server.

Cut / Paste
As well as supporting cutting / pasting of normal text SCREEM also understands other types of data on the clipboard. For instance you can copy from the GNOME web browser and have the html that was selected pasted, rather than just the text.

In addition pasted content can be processed and the appropriate characters converted to HTML entities. This can be useful for showing html tags in your page for example.