editor

An editor is a program used to alter (i.e., edit) the contents of a file. An editor can be a generic ASCII text editor or designed for specific programming languages, markup languages or alternate text formats.

URLs:

Macintosh - BBEdit

Bare Bones Software's FTP Area - information and FTP site.

BBEdit HTML extensions - information and FTP site.

UNIX

Using the Pico Editor

Pico - basic usage information.

Using the vi editor

HTML editors

HTML Editors - a jump page to HTML editors on various platforms.

HTML Editors - the Yahoo! page of HTML editors.

W3E References:

Topic: Writing HTML pages

See the discussion about editors to use when creating a HTML document.

HTML

CGI

Perl

Detail:

An ASCII text editor is a valuable tool to a HTML or CGI (Perl) programmer. Familiarity with standard text editors and their functions on various platforms is also an important skill for a HTML programmer.
HTML editors can be used to create Web documents if you do not wish to type in all the formatting and tag information yourself.