I'm kinda partial to the editor that comes with Netscape Communicator... but that's more a matter of dealing with the devil I know I guess...The need to 'know' HTML is really unnecessary these days... Most web editors do all that stuff in the background just like a word processor...
There's no real call to know HTML anymore than you need to know the Word Perfect 'codes', for instance...
unless, of course, ya wanna do ANYTHING at Mudcat...