I use a very
modern HTML editor. It is called vi. 
 Mine's more modern... I use vim.  ;-)
 Seriously, though, not counting code-generated HTML (usually written
 in Perl, but there are a few exceptions to that), I think 90% of  my
 HTML has been written with some flavor of vi.  The remaining 10% would
 have been done in emacs.  I have more than a few HTML docs that are
 13-14 years old. 
 
Yup, I'm pretty sure I have some dating back nearly that far.
Hand-coding isn't just a good idea for learning HTML, it really causes people
to make leaner documents. People forget that HTML is, as its acronym implies,
a markup language. When people use a page designer, they tend to forget that.
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