favorite text editor

psy

i like edit++ the best, but a lot of people say textpad is better..

anyone out there have an editor thats a mix between the 2 (and most importantly, free 🙂) ?

piersk

I had a look on download.com, did a search for PHP editors and came up with AnyEdit, with which you can do Java, C/C++, PHP, Perl, .css files, HTML files, the whole caboodle. The reason I like it is cos it highlights the code which makes it dead easy to program. I tried PHPEdit but it made Apache play up for some reason (no idea why) so I tried other things and came across AnyEdit which I think is great...

[edit]Forgot to mention before, but AnyEdit can be downloaded from http://www.anyedit.org[/edit]

undertow

EMACS gets my vote. It does everything I want it to do, and more that I don't know about. It's damn big, but disk space isn't much of a problem these days. And it does syntax highlighting and there's a PHP mode for it, though I don't think it's builtin.

psy

edit++ has the syntax highlighting and you can create a template for any language, their site has a ton of templates too.. it isnt terribly big, but the thing i like the best is that it has a file explorer on the left side of it to make editing multi-files easy

Heywood

In windows, I use Ultra Edit 32 for my coding. It does great syntax highlighting, and many other things. It is the only editor to use for programming, for me.

its only $35 dollars Best 35 dollars you can spend on software, IMO

largo

emacs is very nice for sure, but gvim gets my vote.

One piece of advice for people looking for stable editor solutions under unix, please, stay away from zend studio, it's an unstable pile of pooh.

Ultra-Edit gets my vote under windows.

jstarkey

I've tried Zend Studio 3 times. 2.4, 2.5 Beta, and the new stable. I like it a lot, but I agree that it's just too unstable at the moment. It has a lot of time saving features but they are offset by the problems.

FWIW, I went from a 900MHz machine to a 1.7 gig machine and it played a little nicer.

Oh, and everyone knows vi is better than emacs 😃

mrmufin

vi is a very manly editor.

sid

handyHTML - still a bit flawy - but comes wirth great features.

ergates

Originally posted by mrmufin
vi is a very manly editor.

Gerrrraway! I use vi and I'm not a man.
😃

Weedpacket

pico on *nix, 'cos I'm lazy; on Windows I use HTML-Kit for my more web-oriented programming, including PHP.

Sxooter

I use pico in Unix, unless no one's installed it, then I use vi.

In windows I play Battlezone, Quake II, and The Sims.

I've thought about trying some of the newer code highlighting editors, but haven't really had a compelling reason to replace pico.

did you know that if you run pico with a -b switch you can do multiple search and replace?, and -m makes the mouse interactive? and -w will let you have long lines that don't autowrap? just alias it so you don't have to enter them all the time and you're set for having a nice little editor.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by Sxooter
I use pico in Unix, unless no one's installed it, then I use vi.

In windows I play Battlezone, Quake II, and The Sims.

Similar, but only with my officemates. Sometimes, we've got to work, though 🙁.

Dontcha hate it when everyone else in the office uses Windows so you've gotta use Windows? At least the office servers are Linux.

"Windows 2000 - best VT100 emulator I've ever used."

mrmufin

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Dontcha hate it when everyone else in the office uses Windows so you've gotta use Windows?

Yup.

Way back at my last real job everybody used Windoze, 'cept for me, who opted for Linux. Then one day an NT machine was dropped on my desk, and I was ordered to use it. Fortunately, there were no demands made that the Linux box go, and I continued to use it for 98% percent of my tasks. And I did cringe intensely whenever I did have to use that NT machine...

On the server side, we had a cluster-f*ck of QNX, WindowsNT, Solaris and Linux. Funny how QNX, Solaris, and Linux all 'played quite nicely' together, yet when certain 'integration issues' arose when trying to bring NT into the picture the MicroShaft manual seemed to insist that the problem was on the 'other machine'.

NT: Nasty Tricks? Needs Technicians? Never Trustworthy? Nice Try? Not Thought-out?

Jedi_Legend

Am I the only one here who uses Crimson Editor?

thom

My favorite is Textpad. It does everything you can think of, really. It has millions of those small features, syntax highlites, multiple file search (supports regular expressions), easy indenting, can have multiple file open and alerts you when someone else has updated the file you're working on (which can be VERY useful when working with others on a network). On linux I use vim.

Namadoor

Notepad when I am using windows (that is the only one I got installed that won't do anything screwey) and emacs when I am using Linux.

ccrowder

I like ConTEXT. It's freeware and can be had at...

http://www.fixedsys.com/context/

ConTEXT recognizes and highlights many types of source files including PHP, HTML, Perl, C++, etc...etc. One of the main things I like about it is that you can find and replace on a bunch of files at the same time. Has made making minor changes to a bunch of HTML files a breeze.

Chris

jmcneese

dreamweaver mx, baby.
gvim, otherwise.

psy

Originally posted by jmcneese
dreamweaver mx, baby.
gvim, otherwise.

ack dreamweaver stinks 🙂 i only use it for the quick reference when i forget little css/html codes/attribs

i like their gui(i guess i can call it that) though..