[Simon]

I still write all code by hand. I've used BBEdit on the Mac platform since it was introduced back around '93. Probably similar to Notepad on Windows. Basically a text editor optimized for coding. In html or whatever you want to write.

I like being able look at a webpage and see in my mind how it could be put together with various kinds of coding (tables vs css for example). I think something is being lost by those who only let programs create their code for them and don't at least also write some code by hand.

A good text editor may also offer things like text clippings, grep pattern matching, search and replace across multiple files, ftp/sftp transfers, syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, and some coding tools. It just won't write the code for you, and it won't mess with the code you write.