Internet Explorer Tweak – View Source Editor

A simple tip to enhance your web dev productivity (in case you’re testing some scripts’ output in Internet Explorer…): how to setup a different html viewer/editor (rather than the lousy Notepad), associated with IE’s View Source option?

1. Start -> Run -> regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Microsoft -> Internet Explorer
3. Create key: View Source Editor (under Internet Explorer)
4. Create subkey: Editor Name
5. Change the data value for the default string to the path of the new editor. Example, for Notepad++.exe: c:\Program Files\Notepad2\notepad++.exe
6. Reset IE

Since this method changes the registry, I don’t take any responsability in these steps… backup the registry before touching it.