[转]IE View Source Default Editor

IE View Source Default Editor

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As a web developer, I commonly look at source code, View -> Source, from my web browser, which most of the time is Opera, but sometimes I am forced to use IE. This poses a pain in the ass since the default editor is the small, but mostly useless, Notepad. So wanting to be able to View Source (available from right-click on the page), and open it in my favorite editor UltraEdit I tryed and tryed, and eventually came up with the following:

Shutdown IE

1. Rename Temporary Internet Files

Originally, step 1 was step 2, but doing this first will help you avoid the problems I ran into. So, open up windows explorer, right click the start button -> explore, and scroll down to your windows folder. Find a folder called 'Temporary Internet Files', and right click and rename it to 'Temporary_Internet_Files'. Hit ok when prompted. Now, I am going to recommend restarting windows at this point only because IE is so tightly integrated with windows (can you say anti-trust), that we IE refused to do this and got mucked up. Furthermore, without renaming this, my editor became confused because IE was passing a weird directory name.

2. Edit Registry

Ok, now follow these directions to set it up:

• 
  
• From Start -> Run, open 'regedit'
  
• Expand the folders to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer
  
• Select/highlight the 'Internet Explorer' folder in the left pane
  
• Right-click the selected folder, select New -> Key
  
• Rename the new key to 'View Source Editor'
  
• Select/hightlight the 'View Source Editor' folder in the left pane
  
• Right-click the selected folder, select New -> Key
  
• Rename the new key to 'Editor Name'
  
• Select/highlight the 'Editor Name' folder in the left pane
  
• In the right pane you will see an object '(Default)', double-click it to enter in path to editor
  
• Enter in the path to your favorite editor, 'C:/Program Files/UltraEdit/Uedit32.exe'
  
• Close regedit
  

Thats it... Now open up IE, and view source TAA-DAA