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Dreamweaver alternative

I'm aware there are plenty of questions like this but I'm looking to move to another development environment but not lose some of the better Dreamweaver features / behaviors.

I have Dreamweaver CS6 and it just gets worse every release. The simple act of opening a file causes it to freeze these days.

Here are the features I'd like in the alternative. I code in "code view" but design view is very useful to paste and format body copy.

  • Tag auto close. But only when I type "</"
  • Related files (file browser might do)
  • Node tree, so I can click on a node which will be highlighted in the source code.
  • Good source code autocomplete, highlighting, auto formatting etc
  • Decent "design" area that I can paste in the text content, hitting enter creates a p, hitting tab creates a list, hitting tab in an existing list creates a nested list, options to keep various levels of formatting on content pasted from another source etc
Solution

  • Looks like I can continue to use DW CS6. If you happen to be linking to hosted JS or CSS files, DW will spend far too much time downloading them.

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS6\Remote Download]
"RemoteDownloadAllow"="FALSE"