That sounds ambitious. Good luck.

On the subject of interfaces: I urge you not to cater too blatantly to the "first-time user". By all means, keep the window simple and nonthreatening, with buttons and menus for people who haven't yet mastered your editor, but make sure that your more advanced users have plenty of power at their fingertips, with an interface that doesn't get in the way. As much as possible, let the user configure the editor the way they want it: this way, you can provide a simple, user-obsequious default interface without driving away people who want to do more faster, and are willing to spend some time learning how to do it.

One major advantage to a pure-Perl editor is the opportunity to run the text through arbitrary Perl code on the fly, very easily. Give your users the chance to take advantage of the perl process that's already running.

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In reply to Re: HTML Editor: a project by FoxtrotUniform
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