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Internet Explorer Default Source Editor (View Source)

posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:50 AM

With a new laptop there have been quite a few things I have had to configure again.  One of those is the default source view application related to Internet Explorer.  The following instructions apply to Windows XP (not sure yet on Vista).

I thought by changing the HTML Editor within IE (Tools - Internet Options - Programs) would have fixed the problem.  Nope, that did not work.  The following however does work nicely.

Run Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
|- Software
|-- Microsoft
|--- Internet Explorer
|---- View Source Editor
|----- Editor Name (Default) = "C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\TextPad.exe"

If 'View Source Editor' doesn't exist you will need to create then create the key 'Editor Name' and set the value to the path to the editor that you are going to use.

I know other individuals like Notepad2 or SlickEdit

What editor's do you use?

category: Tools

Comments


# re: Internet Explorer Default Source Editor (View Source)
Posted by Mike on 8/5/2008 9:51 AM
Gravatar Great post, thank you very much.
# re: Internet Explorer Default Source Editor (View Source)
Posted by Nea on 9/4/2008 10:30 AM
Gravatar Notepad++ ... great.
# re: Internet Explorer Default Source Editor (View Source)
Posted by Luca (Italy) on 2/4/2009 3:33 AM
Gravatar Thank you!
I use SciTE: all in one file and less then 1MB.
# re: Internet Explorer Default Source Editor (View Source)
Posted by Andy on 1/27/2010 4:10 AM
Gravatar thanks
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