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

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Bluefish is pretty good, and it's free. Vim is most advanced, for serious codes.
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I use Crimson Editor mostly. However, I've used vi(m) in 'nix environments and I'll be working with PHPEd soon because of the included debugging functionality. It really helps when I'm being asked to track down bugs in code that I didn't write.
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Dreamweaver is the best!
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Personally I use PSPad... and it's not in the list :lol:
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dreamweaver seems pretty good to use. I like it, but notepad++ is also pretty good. Any preferences for a php IDE which can directly interact with a mysql database?
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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I have really started to like Zend Studio for Eclipse as of late. But I only use it because my company pays for it. If I had to I wouldn't. I'd stick with EclipsePDT.

NetBeans has a SQL connector that works OK. Not anything great, but workable. There are several Eclipse Plugins you can get to work with your databases, but in the end I have found that native SQL clients work way better as stand alone environments than they do when integrated into the IDE.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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Hi everyone. I'm new here and joined because you have a forum dedicated to regex...

I used to use UltraEdit32 until I got heavy into regex and uncovered inconsistencies in its Perl engine (Boost Library). Then I discovered EditPad Pro which is now my general text editor of choice. Small, fast, and non-obtrusive. Excellent regex support and color syntax highlighting. Side pane showing; tree-view of entire file system, code snippets, FTP connections, File Navigator, or just the currently opened files. Clean install/uninstall and can be installed and run on a USB stick. The lite version is free (Pro version is $50). I switched from Ultra-Edit (which is also good) and have not looked back. I love this editor!

Just Great Software focuses on regular expression technology and has the most powerful regex tools available for Windows. The author of the software also runs the http://www.regular-expressions.info/ website. I purchased EPP, PowerGrep and RegexBuddy last year and these are some of the finest apps I've run across in my 30 years programming. A bit pricey but well worth the cost.

Note: I'm surprised that my three favorite editors are not even on your list (UltraEdit32, Editpad Pro and Komodo IDE).

But of course if you get ten people in a room, you will have a dozen opinions about the best text editor!
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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For me Eclipse is the best! It's got SVN support, FTP upload/download (with Aptana Studio), many plug-ins. It's fast and very good for large projects. I use it at work everyday. Additionally if I want to write small piece of code I use Notepad++ (is much more faster than Ecplise and allows you to create a file without creating a whole project).
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I use a fairly wide variety of editors:

Large projects: Currently shifting from Eclipse to Komodo (I'm on a mac) Eclipse is nice but Komodo loads faster, and is just a nicer feel, it catches most syntax and other errors before they happen and does a pretty good job of code completion including often offering me variable name etc that I declared in another script linked in by an include or even by a framework $this->load-> or whatever, so it goes pretty deep into working out how my software works before giving me error feedback. Plus, it's free, great for writing (X)HTML too, and has plugins for Jquery and a few bits like that.

Smaller stuff, I use textedit, which is awesome. Especially given that you can give it a directory and it will open with the directory in tree view next to the edit area, and you can one-click open anything.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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I use notepad++...it's like a part of me.

Wow...so many votes for dreamweaver. Never used it myself, but from what I hear it's just for lazy people who cba to write their own code 8)
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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AFAIC EditPad Pro is the best text editor around, and it has been my editor of choice for both text & code for a few years now. Great set of features, file comparison, excellent regexp support (w/ highlight), syntax highlighting, folding, FTP, rect. selection, search&find with multi-line & regexp support, all in a tab and not another god damn window (I can't believe how many editors do not offer this!), etc -- I just love it!

For the record, when writing code I think the font also matters, and I use Dina 8 which I find just great.
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jacky wrote:For the record, when writing code I think the font also matters, and I use Dina 8 which I find just great.
The font is important, for sure. For me, nothing was able to beat Fixedsys (or Fixedsys Excelsior if you need unicode) - and I tried a lot of monospaced fonts.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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I have used Zend Studio for Eclipse.
but now i am using NetBeans (lightweight, only 20M+).
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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I have used NotePadd++, Komodo Edit, Dreamweaver, and notepad. :)
jackpf wrote:I use notepad++...it's like a part of me.

Wow...so many votes for dreamweaver. Never used it myself, but from what I hear it's just for lazy people who cba to write their own code 8)
No, not really, it adds in some ending tabs here and there and a few other things.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by jackpf »

Hmm...I find that quite annoying tbh.

Like, I tried out NetBeans, and found the way it adds in the ending quote really annoying, since it just means you have to navigate round it to put the semi-colon on the end. If I'd just typed the damn quote myself it'd probably be a lot quicker :P

It's just preference though.
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