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Originally Posted by JimmyG
Okay, I gave it a shot. Downloaded it, copied the book I'm working on in Sigil over to it, and opened it for editing. Added two new files, okey and dokey. Linked the style sheet, oops, wrong. the url it used for the style sheet was "../OEBPS/Styles/Style0001.css" which the validator rightly said "refers to a resource that doesn't exist." Should be "../Styles/Style0001.css" or "../../OEBPS/Styles/Style0001.css" When I created the new files, I entered "Text/okey.xhtml" and "Text/dokey.xhtml". Blooy. It entered the file in content.opf as okey.xhtml and dokey.xhtml, but saved the files as okey.html and dokey.html. Forget about validation. I quit.
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That doesn't sound even remotely right. I certainly have never had this problem, and would love to hear how you got it.
It would imply that the fundamental feature of the editor is so broken as to make the entire editor completely and utterly worthless. Can't imagine how that would've slipped by all our notices.
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And a couple of nits. I'm old and my eyesight ain't that great. Black text on a blue background with no syntax highlighting, too difficult for me.
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My background is white, I think that is the default. In any event, you could go to Preferences ==> Editor settings and choose several different color schemes, or even write your own.
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Can you do search and replace in selection? No. You have to first select it, mark it, then search and replace in marked text. The only way to get rid of marked text is to mark something else.
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I cannot say I use marked text
a lot at all, but looking in Sigil, I see marking text will automatically switch the S&R mode to "Marked text". And calibre does the same.
You do not need to mark more text, in order to remove the old mark. Simply select nothing and re-mark it. It will unmark the text currently marked.
That I think is a bug:
Sigil automatically senses when text has been marked and no other text has been highlighted, and changes the label to "Unmark Marked Text".
calibre should also have an indicator that it is doing that. In the meantime, you could just pretend that is what the words say, and do it anyway.
EDIT: This has been fixed.
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And, it doesn't have clips, which I use a lot.
I said I'd give it a shot, and I did, but no sale.
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Fair enough. Clips are indeed something calibre noticeably still lacks. There are third-party paste managers that could duplicate the effects if you really want to use calibre but also need clips.
But if Sigil works for you and you need clips then by all means stick with Sigil.
It is your choice, and both are valid choices. Just don't say:
calibre is doing something it isn't in fact doing
or isn't doing something that it is in fact doing.