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text editor
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:19 am
by psurrena
I started a new job and the company is on XP. I always used a Mac and have been spoiled by TextMate. What would everyone recommend is a good free / inexpensive text editor for PHP development on XP?
Thank you in advance.
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:23 am
by Oren
Free: Notepad

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:24 am
by psurrena
maybe something with syntax highlighting....
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:25 am
by Oren
Notepad++

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:29 am
by psurrena
not bad.
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:40 am
by RobertGonzalez
Try reading
the What's your favorite PHP editor mega-thread.
Extremely Lightweight: Notepad
Very Lightweight (but powerful): Notepad2
Lightweight and powerful: Notepad++
Powerful, feature rich, a little heavier but not by much: PSPad & EditPLus
Total top of the line IDE: Eclipse with the PHPEclispe plugin
All of these are free, install very easy are insanely easy to use. On any given day I will have three of these open at one time (Right now it is Notepad2, Notepad++ and PSPad).
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:42 am
by psurrena
great - thank you.
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:46 pm
by guitarlvr
notepad2 is pretty good. I found it yesterday from that favorite editor thread. syntax highlighting and no install needed = awesome.
Wayne
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:06 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Yeah, that has quickly become my editor of choice for fast edits. I am a little miffed about no tab support, but I have notepad++ for that, so I really cannot (and will not) complain about it.
Re: text editor
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:20 pm
by Chris Corbyn
psurrena wrote:I always used a Mac and have been spoiled by TextMate.
WOW! Thank you, thank you!

I've come from Linux to OS X and had always been impressed with Kate on Linux. Since I've been using OS X I've been extremely disappointed with the editors I've tried (Eclipse = Too slow, BBEdit = Broke my UTF-8 files!!, JDeveloper = Off to a good start then got really slow, XCode = Easy to navigate, everything about it brilliant except it's crappy PHP highlighting). Now I just install the 30 day trial of TextMate and it reminds me of Kate

Flawless syntax highlighting, nothing too "fluffy"... just an editor, easy to browse files and manage projects. It's the first editor I think I'll actually pay for. It appears to be based on XCode from the way the project manager feels.
Ok, back on topic, sorry for derailing.