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Originally Posted by grumbles
While I use Sigil to put books together since it automagically creates the toc and opf files for me, I really, really, really dislike the text text editor. I normally use Notepad++ on Windows or SciTE everywhere. I wish the Sigil authors had used the Scintilla editor component instead of the monstrosity they did use. I find myself going to great lengths to avoid doing any editing with Sigil. All I use if for is to take some xhtml files, along with style sheets and perhaps some images and have them packaged up into an epub.
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Yeah, I was thinking about this yesterday. Given that epub is basically a way of grouping HTML files and HTML is such a common syntax target for editors, combined with the fact that many text editors allow for heavy customisation including syntax highlighting, code-completion and even scripting "plug-ins" - might this be a quicker and simpler way to get a tool that might stand a little better for future development?
I'm saying this without any extensive analysis, so forgive me if the suggestion is a bit naive, and I'm certainly not trying to disrespect the work put into the Sigil project. I'm just curious as to the possibilities in this area given the similarities between a more advanced HTML-ready text editor and the Sigil project.