What editor do you use? 2008

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Which editor do you prefer to use?

TextPad
8
2%
phpDesigner
27
6%
EditPlus
11
2%
Notepad
14
3%
Homesite
2
0%
Crimson Editor
7
1%
Dreamweaver
110
23%
Notepad++
81
17%
Notepad2
6
1%
PHPEdit
10
2%
Vim/Vi
17
4%
Emacs/XEmacs
2
0%
nano/pico
0
No votes
Bluefish
2
0%
gEdit/gPHPEdit
9
2%
Kate
3
1%
XCode
2
0%
TextMate
11
2%
BBEdit
4
1%
Coda
11
2%
Eclipse
45
9%
JEdit
2
0%
Zend Studio
22
5%
Other
71
15%
 
Total votes: 477

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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by caseymadaline »

@abgoosht
I installed version 4 of komodo edit and I really like it! It’s in some ways much better than phpEdit in terms of stability and general responsiveness, the “feel” of the software is very strong.
I do really miss the code beautifier functionalities, though.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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I use Dreamweaver cs4, and a load of people i know use it to.

it's great, but the thing to beware is if you develop site over different systems, dreamwever loves putting dependent files up. The number of times i have over written files i didn't mean. argh.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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I thought BBEdit was expensive at 125 bucks; but, dreamweaver at 400 is out of the question for my simple budget.

I started off with textEdit on a Mac, pretty-much like notepad; desperately needed line numbers and syn. coloring,
So, I now use TextMate on a Mac, thats after my trial and errors with a few of the open source editors. TextMate works OK and is a good price.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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I just tried TextMate for the first time, watched a few screencasts. All I have to say is: how in the world did I survive without this godly text editor? I'm very impressed! I'm gonna have to plop down the dough for this awesome piece of software.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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Cirdan wrote:I just tried TextMate for the first time, watched a few screencasts. All I have to say is: how in the world did I survive without this godly text editor? I'm very impressed! I'm gonna have to plop down the dough for this awesome piece of software.
I have several people recommended TextMate to me. I'm so interested to try it.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by greyhoundcode »

Bit of a Nusphere PhpEd fan myself, though I use VS-2008 for C# work and I suppose the natural thing to do would be do get a PHP extension for it.

At some point I installed a trial run of Delphi for PHP. Impressive in some ways but even so it just didn't hit the spot :-(

The number of 'advanced notepads' (so to speak) that are out there is almost unbelievable. I used to use Notepad++ a lot - still like it in fact. It's funny how many different permutations of what's essentially the same application have come about.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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Let try PSPad. It's OK to me. It's free.
http://www.pspad.com/
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by Kadanis »

I'm a bit of an editor slut to be honest, never really giving my loyalty to one ^^

Mainly using Dreamweaver in the office as that's what the company I work for has. Multi-seat CS4 liceneses anyway.

At home, it's been UltraEdit for a long time, but following a post by Vlad in another thread I decided to check out NetBeans PHP and so far I must say I'm hooked. Only be using it for a few days, but definitely going to be replacing the plain text editor, especially for the bigger projects.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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Dude, I just went to a meetup in Santa Clara at the Sun campus there and a NetBeans team evangelist gave a sick demo on using NetBeans 6.5 for PHP to make a Flickr app using nothing but built in tools from NetBeans. I have been using NetBeans since just before 6.0 and I gotta say that the IDE is pretty close to perfect in 6.5. The database connector handling/display has some issues but I am sure that those issues will be worked out soon. And I would love an ERD diagramming tool to compliment the UML stuff.

And FYI, the entire database side of the NetBeans team just got laid off last Friday. Sad days for sure.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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Notepad... fastest editor ever. 8O
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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At the moment I use NetBeans IDE 6.5, since I can use it for both PHP and Java.

I'd recommend anyone to try NetBeans (as it's open-source), I think it's fantastic and has some great time-saving features. e.g. typing tryc followed by tab puts a full try/catch statement in (also has support for if/else, switch etc. and you can define your own). It also highlights syntax errors in your source.

It can provide variable hints and method hints for your own classes, if you use the PHPDoc commenting style then it provides your comments in a formatted box which hovers next to the code hint so you don't have to look at your class files to remember what parameters to put in. It also has full PHP debugging allowing line-by line stepping.

Not just PHP though, it can provide code hints for JavaScript and even the jQuery library and other JavaScript libraries.

It does seem to get confused with lots of nested PHP/JavaScript though and highlights masses of code as syntactically incorrect, which can be annoying but I suppose nothing's perfect!

Anyone else use NetBeans?
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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NetBeans is getting better, but there are some issues that still need to be worked out before it competes well with the likes of Eclipse.

I do know that the better part of the US based NetBeans development team just got laid off by Sun and that most of the development now is being done in Prague. They are working hard to handle trouble tickets and bug reports but I am sensing that the rapid pace of development will probably wane a bit now.

There are some nice things about it though. But some are a little irritating at the moment so I have actually went back to EclipsePDT for the time being.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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I know what you mean, there are some things which annoy me on a daily basis!! e.g. the IDE tries to be too clever, and automatically inserts closing apostrophes when I type a single apostrophe, meaning I have to delete the other, or tries to be clever by removing a closing bracket when I type another closing bracket next to it, meaning it's annoying to type logic such as && because the IDE keeps removing brackets! Not to mention I have about 60 lines of JS + PHP which it insists on underlining as incorrect and highlighting the file saying it contains syntax errors.

I've never used Eclipse but I'll give it a go as (I think) it's free?
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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Yes, Eclipse is free. I'd recommend using the EclipsePDT version.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by afzal_du »

html/css-> Dreamweaver
javascript-> Aptana studio
MySQL manipulation-> Navicat
c++ ->codeblocks / codelite(for wxwidgets)
php/others ->notepad++

Blumentals WeBuilder is also nice but redundant!
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