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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 :P

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++ :P

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.