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

ct_lee
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by ct_lee »

I use notepad++ and dreamweaver, I find that notepad++ is great for its simplicity and how it tells you which bracket closes what open bracket by highlighting it, those simple things make it great. Dreamweaver is great for quickly coding simple webpages or for making quick mock ups.
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JNettles
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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Eclipse PHP/Zend & VS.PHP.
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Mirge
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by Mirge »

Eclipse PDT is where it's at for serious developers :)
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JNettles
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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I'm reserving judgment on "Best IDE" until I see Visual Studio 2010's implementation. :)
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Mirge
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by Mirge »

lol... everybody will always have their own favorite IDE. Nobody can sway me from Eclipse PDT :)
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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Mirge wrote:Eclipse PDT is where it's at for serious developers :)
I disagree! Aptana Studio is where it's at ;D
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by Gadgetmo »

Only one other person has said Smultron. It's really good! :)
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superdezign
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by superdezign »

I recently made the switch to Notepad++. I love the control. I kind of miss having hints for function/method parameters, but the simplicity and flexibility is great. I also just started actually liking split screen editing. :P

And the fact that changing language highlighting is simple is a huge plus. I do a lot of different programming for classes and such.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by jackpf »

N1 :)
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by JNettles »

I just started giving Netbeans another shot - I tried it when they first came out with the PHP package back when but it was so buggy that I quickly gave up on it. Netbeans 6.7.1 is pretty slick. I'm still not sure that I prefer its project management over Eclipse's but the intellisense is much more responsive than Eclipse and recognizes things like nested class declarations that VS.PHP has zero support for. IMHO, Netbeans also debugs more smoothly than Eclipse.

Netbeans will probably become my primary prototyping tool here soon.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by RobertGonzalez »

NetBeans will become my editor of choice as soon as they work out the issues of not being able to see into parent classes that live outside of the current project (like extending page controller abstract classes in a framework, for example). There are a couple of other little things that really annoy the hell out of me with it (like requiring an index.php file in order to make a project, empty line whitespace getting removed so you new lines don't line up, etc). Still, it is fast, light and very clean. I just need it to grow up a little more.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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BetBeans is pretty slick but feels an awful lot like Eclipse with a few more features for PHP.
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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Zend Studio has no line-wrapping. :(
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

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i used to use eclipse and zend but im stuck on notepad++

it's really hard for me to justify using an ide for web development in the work i do
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Payton
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008

Post by Payton »

Notepad++ for just about everything except for things like little bits of information I need to temporarily keep; for that I just use Notepad.
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