Unix HTML Editors

This is a listing of all Unix HTML editing tools known to me (except for the ones you've emailed me about, that I haven't gotten around to including in the list yet).

I have lists for the following platforms: Amiga, DOS, Mac, NeXTstep, OS/2, Unix, VMS, and Windows.

Would you like to make a contribution?

Important Note:

I'm sorry, but I am unable to give advice on what editor is most suitable for your specific needs. (For whatever it's worth, I use vi.) I do the best I can to keep up with what editors exist, but I don't have nearly enough time to try them out, or do detailed feature comparisons. If anyone knows of sites giving editor reviews, feature comparisons, or similar information, please let me know and I'll list it here.

Applix HTML Author

• Author: Applix
• Availability: Commercial?
• Current version: ?
• Homepage: http://www.applix.com/appware/oa/HTML.html
• Description: Seems to be part of a large collection of software tools by this company...

ASHE (A Simple HTML Editor)

• Author: John Punin (puninj@cs.rpi.edu)
• Availability: Free
• Current version:
• Homepage: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/TALK/head.html
• Description: Uses HTML widget of NCSA Mosaic for X to provide full previewing capability.

asWedit

• Author: Andrzej Stochniol
• Availability: Free for educational or charitable non-profit; free evaluation for individuals and commercial organizations
• Current version: 2.5
• Homepage: ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/ (US mirror: ftp://ftp.umbc.edu/pub/unix/www/asWedit/)
• Description: asWedit is an easy to use HTML 3, HTML 2 and text editor for X Window System and Motif. This '3-in-1' release offers a standard text editing mode and context-sensitive HTML 3 and HTML 2 modes.

City University HTML Editor

• Author: Nick Williams
• Availability: Free
• Current version:
• Homepage: http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/homes/njw/htmltext/htmltext.html
• Description:

Cybersistant

• Author: Web Services, Inc.
• Availability: Commercial, $495 (30 day free trial)
• Current version: 1.0
• Homepage: http://smgi.com/wsi/cybersis.html
• Description: Add-on for Interleaf that provides HTML publishing capability. Supports HTML 3.0, tables, forms. Ileaf 5 and 6 compatible.

Easy HTML

• Author: Mike Gebis, NCSA
• Availability: Free
• Current version:
• Homepage: http://ox.ncsa.uiuc.edu/easyhtml/easy.html
• Description: A World Wide Web forms-based interactive editor for HTML files. Guides the user through the process of creating and editing an HTML document via a Web browser. Allows continual previewing of the document in progress and saving of the finished product to the user's local disk.

emacs hm--html-menus

• Author: Heiko Muenkel
• Availability: Free
• Current version: 4.7
• Homepage: http://www.tnt.uni-hannover.de/data/info/www/tnt/soft/info/www/html-editors/hm--html-menus/aftp.html
• Description: Pulldown and popup menus and functions for writing HTML pages. Based on html-mode from Marc Andreessen. The URL above gives 4 locations to get it.

emacs html-helper-mode

• Author: Nelson Minar
• Availability: Free
• Current version:
• Homepage: http://www.santafe.edu/~nelson/tools/
• Description: Also based on Marc Andreessen's html-mode, but with a different interface and many new features. The home page has lots of information about other useful tools for editing HTML in emacs.

GNNpress

• Author: NaviSoft
• Availability: Free
• Current version: 1.2b
• Homepage: http://www.tools.gnn.com/press/index.html
• Description: WYSIWYG. HTML 3.0 and Netscape extensions. Tables, forms, body attributes. Source editing. Link checking. Customizable toolbar. SOCKS support. Online docs, help, templates, upgrades.

HoTMetaL

• Author: SoftQuad, Inc.
• Availability: Commercial, $195
• Current version: 1.0+
• Homepage: http://www.sq.com/products/hotmetal/hm-ftp.htm
• Description: Unsupported free version of HoTMetaL PRO. Includes plenty of features -- document templates, forms support, rules checking, cleanup of existing documents with bad markup.

HoTMetaL PRO

• Author: SoftQuad, Inc.
• Availability: Commercial, $195
• Current version: 2.0
• Homepage: http://www.sq.com/products/hotmetal/hmp-org.htm
• Description: Import from many different formats. Supports most Netscape and HTML 3 extensions. Faster and smaller than version 1.0. Improved user interface. Enhanced URL support. Upgrade for $59.

NaviPress

• Author: NaviSoft
• Description: Renamed GNNpress.

Phoenix

• Author: Lee Neuberg
• Availability:
• Current version:
• Homepage: http://www.bsd.uchicago.edu/ftp/pub/phoenix/README.html
• Description:

Symposia

• Author: Grif S.A.
• Availability: Commercial, $295
• Current version: 1.5
• Homepage: http://www.grif.fr/prod/sympro.html
• Description: Combines fully function web browser and WYSIWYG structured HTML editor. Based on SGML authoring technology. Enforces HTML compliance. Supports HTML 3.2, Netscape frames. File lock and unlock for collaborative authoring. Hotlist and document history. Multiple undo. HTML source view. HTML templates.

tkHTML

• Author:
• Availability:
• Current version:
• Homepage: http://www.ssc.com/~roland/tkHTML/tkHTML.html
• Description: HTML editor based on the tcl script language and the tk toolkit.

vi

• Author: Bill Joy
• Availability: Free
• Current version: ?
• Homepage:
• Description: God's gift to text editing. I've seen a nice-looking collection of HTML macros for vi somewhere. I just need to find them again... Can anyone give me a URL?

vi macros

• Author: Ray Jones
• Availability: Free
• Current version: n/a
• Homepage: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/packages/infosystems/WWW/tools/editing/html-vi-macros
• Description: Some old (Sep 1993!) and relatively simple macros for translating bits of plain text to HTML.

vi macros

• Author: ?
• Availability: Free
• Current version: n/a
• Homepage: http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/~asherber/exrc.htm
• Description: Aaron Sherber's page, but not his macros. Much more extensive than the set above.

Webcrafter

• Author: Mediacraft, Inc.
• Availability: Commercial, $?
• Current version: ?
• Homepage: http://www.webville.com/
• Description: A complete solution for creating and managing Web sites. Includes page templates, clip art, online hints, quick reference, tutorials and RealAudio help files. Editor supports all HTML 2.0 features, Netscape extensions including background stuff, and text colors. Menus to choose items to include in web pages; can also include HTML directly. Preview button.

WebMagic

• Author: Silicon Graphics
• Availability: Commercial
• Current version: 2.0
• Homepage: http://www.sgi.com/Products/WebFORCE/WebMagic/index.html
• Description: Part of the Indigo Magic user environment, bundled on all SGI computers. Graphical WYSIWYG interface. Predefined templates. Supports 2.0 plus "unknown tags", making it easy to import legacy documents. PRO edition includes forms, image map, color, and table conversion tools.

WebWeave

• Author: ?
• Availability: Free?
• Current version: ?
• Homepage: http://www.waste.org/~oxymoron/webweave
• Description: Macro kit using m4 to help build and maintain HTML files easily. Use your favorite text editor to create named links, images, ruling lines, bullets, lists, etc. that you can refer to, instead of clumsy hard-to-maintain markup code.