This is a request to add a page source editor to the editing modes of the editor. The UI of changing between modes was discussed in bug #11140. I won't go into all the features that page source editors can have, I'm sure others know more than me. The important thing however is that you can edit in one mode and then change over to the other. This is obviously non-trivial in that you need to avoid the graphical editing losing comments and stuff entered in page source editor mode.

Ideally this editor could be initially designed at least to work with any XML in preparation to having an arbitrary XML editor in Mozilla.

*** Bug 16400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The current standard for dual-mode editors has been set by Dreamweaver <URL:http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/>. Macromedia guarantees that after editing in graphical mode, *no changes whatsoever* will happen to any line of the file upon saving that were not a direct result of the graphical editing (Promoting the feature here, not the company). Now that the bar has been raised to that level I am not sure that it is worth trying to create a dual-mode editor without meeting that strict standard of noninterference with hand-coding in source files. Having said that, it would be absolutely excellent to have such an editor available in Mozilla, so long as the non-graphical mode also allowed regex search and replace.

I would imagine regexp would be a feature that would be implemented by the underlying plaintext editor.

Assigning all open "nobody@mozilla.org" bugs to "leger@netscape.com" to weed thru.

Updating assignee for this component.

Some tips from akkana on n.p.m.editor for whoever wants to help out with this bug It's not hard to do this (basically, save on focus out, and check last-mod date on focus in, and voila, you can work with an external source editor), and would certainly be useful to a lot of people, but we inside netscape may not have time for it in the first release unless someone else helps out, which is why the bug is marked helpwanted.

*** Bug 31583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reassign to cmanske

Help would be nice, but we are planning to support this feature.

*** Bug 33594 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 36774 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Copying over some comments I made in bug 36774, though if we use a tabbed view (which would be great!), these aren't all relevant: Our current Insert HTML Source dialog (in the insert menu) is cool in that if something is selected, the source of that part of the dialog will be loaded into the dialog when it's brought up. Several of us agreed at the last editor team meeting that this wasn't very discoverable, and in any case it's ugly (it's fine as a little dialog, but lousy for editing entire documents). We need several changes to give us usable source editing: 1. Make it look more like an editor window. Ideally, it should look a lot like the plaintext editor (TextEditorAppShell.xul) -- maybe even use that same xul file, if possible -- including using normal-size CSS fonts, not the microscopic fonts that UE insists on using for dialogs. 2. It should probably be somewhere else, like under the Edit menu -- probably leave the existing little InsertSource dialog where it is, and then let the marketing/UE people fight about where each one should go. 3. If the selection is collapsed when the dialog is brought up, then instead of coming up blank (like the insert source dialog), it should get the contents of the whole document (i.e. it shouldn't include the "selection only" flag when calling the output routines).

The basic feature is finished. But I have to disable UI that is inappropriate to HTML editing. That has to be done before beta2, I think, else you could get into real trouble. I wish we could do that during the beta2 bug fixing phase (that's not M17, right?) instead of before May 16th. That task is related to other menu/command enabling/disabling work that needs to be done. I'm not sure how critical all of that is. Simon?

Why wasnt' this marked as nsbeta2 before? Doing so now. HTML Source editing is done except for disabling UI, so changing summary to reflect that task. Part of this is to collapse the toolbars, which currently doesn't work because of bug 36628

Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar.

Collapse now works to hide the toolbars. Still need to modify the menu to allow only limited commands while editing source.

Changin summary back to the general implementation item Problems with this feature are covered by bugs 38875 and 38972

This feature is finished. Other bugs cover problems. Note that the HTML Source item is in both the Edit and View menus and will do exactly the same: Go to editor's HTML Source window. We may decide to remove it from one menu or the other later.

verified in 5/19 build.