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Unipus wrote:I don't understand how you can be efficient when you have no contextual coloring, no line numbers, no syntax completion, no automatic style linking.
I guess he talking about notepad.
I used homesite before because the syntax hihglighint was pretty good, that rises efficiency.
Now i use dreamweaver ONLY on code view, just because dreamweaver is supposed to be the improved version of homesite, which i found has a few things missing.
Notepad i use it when i'm working somewhere when there's no program to syntax highlight...
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I used to use Homesite4, it was cool. On Linux KDE's Quanta is very good for PHP. On Windows phpED is great as somebody else mentioned. Also on Windows, try PHP Coder Pro, it is nice and free (http://www.phpide.de). Lets see, also on Linux there is CoffeeCup HTML editor that works with PHP nicely.
I use dreamwaver for almost everything I do. I just got my hands of a copy of Zend Studio and it is ok too, but I still prefer dreamwaver. Its more speedy than Zend (java app). Zend has 'codecompletion', and much more, which is where nice but thats not enough!
I use EditPlus - http://www.editplus.com/
it is an excellent editor with syntax highlighting for a number of different langauges,(including PHP) and you can have multiple pages up at the same time in a sort of tabbed interface. Has built-in FTP support also. Wouldn't use anything else!
howw many languages do you use? notepade actually has line limitations. therefore it should ONLY be used as a last resort. (or to view when on a windows machine)
i have used a number of languages. i have one program i use for all of them.
can't beat it. it does everything. has the gcc embedded... gcc has got to be one of if not the best compiler out there. (each in dividual one. the gcc itself is a compiler that is made up of several compilers and can switch between them all)
well the windows version has the gcc embedded. the posix ones use whatever compiler you have (which for most people is the gcc)
I create the layouts with DW (the best html editor I've found, I'm under Mac Os X).
It interacts with BBEdit (into Mac Os X and before) , but I dont use this feature nor the DW php generator (very bad, cause Macromedia has his own propietary server app ; (
After creating the html layouts I expect to be parsed by the php, I go back to BBEdit and code there.
You can have a "library" of text files as pre-coded solutions...
BBEdit, the best text editor:
Perfect loop and parenthesis recognition { ....... } (-------) [ xxxxxx ]
Perfect ONLY TEXT -unix- editing and saving.
Perfect fast function location into php files.
Perfect file update (if you edit open the BBEdit file with DW !)
Perfect -direct- PERL execution, and Darwin Terminal Command Line integration!!!
I use Dreamweaver too.... and works good for me... yes it generates lot of unnessesary code.. but then again... best way to get along with beast is to know how to control it. Same goes for Dreamweaver, if you know what you want to do and how, dreamweaver is cool tool..
jeanloui wrote:I create the layouts with DW (the best html editor I've found, I'm under Mac Os X).
It interacts with BBEdit (into Mac Os X and before) , but I dont use this feature nor the DW php generator (very bad, cause Macromedia has his own propietary server app ; (
After creating the html layouts I expect to be parsed by the php, I go back to BBEdit and code there.
You can have a "library" of text files as pre-coded solutions...
BBEdit, the best text editor:
Perfect loop and parenthesis recognition { ....... } (-------) [ xxxxxx ]
Perfect ONLY TEXT -unix- editing and saving.
Perfect fast function location into php files.
Perfect file update (if you edit open the BBEdit file with DW !)
Perfect -direct- PERL execution, and Darwin Terminal Command Line integration!!!
they do everything you mentioned and then some.
the only annoying thing is that when you use heredocs, it automatically indents the END; marker. and then you don't need to have multiple programs.
i've used bb edit
it;s not as good as emacs/xemacs (imho)
m3rajk wrote:i've used bb edit
it;s not as good as emacs/xemacs (imho)
A lot of people are comming from Unix - Linux to the Darwin of Mac OSX... You can have there all your emacs and command line tools PLUS the comfortable mac interface... (not everybody is an information technologies engineer..)
But sure, for hardcore things (hardcode), all Linux apps are better and powerfull (no doubt!)
i think this post is ought to be moved to General Discussion forum... doesn't belong here (IMHO)
by the way, homesite has better color coding than DW, and PHPEd has many more features to work with php, but is very unstable, that's one of the downsides of PHPEd, notepad is very fast but not efficient(as others have said), frontpage is totally for newbies and sux for php.
In macs i have no knowledge of any text editor rather than Simple Text, if that's the name(i saw it in Comp USA[a store...]).