"replace all occurrences of the left pointy bracket (<) with the actual code that renders as the left pointy bracket.
as in "replace all occurances of < with <"
The really nice thing is being able to create macros for all kinds of shortcuts and having colored text to highlight specific commands and tags.
When I'm preparing something like code displays in a web page I usually write the whole message in my favorite text editor, Textpad. It's shareware; try it out and if you like like it pay some money (not a lot). There are lots of great editors for writing code. OOps ... that's a windows program and I see it's not available for Macs. I went over to http://shareware.com and searched for 'editor' in the Mac section and there's BBedit (there's a 'lite' version for free, not sure how good it is)! I've heard it's a real programming editor for Macs.
The nice thing about these specialized editors is that you can create macros to do things like replace the left pointy bracket (<) with code that renders as the bracket ... as in
replace all occurances of < with <
You can see some code I rendered over at the
General developer forum
The really nice thing is being able to create macros for all kinds of shortcuts and having colored text to highlight specific commands and tags.