I've been struggling to find a good editor under Linux for some time. Though we have solutions like gvim, emacs & quanta, which in their own right are incredible, it proves to be a tedious task when managing multiple projects remotely. I spent a great deal of time trying to customize gvim and am delighted with the solution, but it stands well for local development.
Quanta has a nice GUI and is quite flexible, terrible remote management support though.
Zend Studio is as unstable as an application can get (windows or linux). Firstly, it crashes. Then it crashes again. I have plenty of memory and plenty of processing power, so it irritates me to no end when it hangs for no visible reason. You end up killing the process, killing the java threads and restarting the damn thing.
NuSphere's PHPEd for Linux however proves to be a superb PHP environment. Movement within the program is very quick (as opposed to Zend Studio's clunky environment -- the primary competitor).
The editing environment can be customized to a certain extent, though window placement for various display options is fixed.
Remote management of projects works very well, the FTP interface is lightening quick and navigation options accommodate the small area assigned nicely (as opposed to Quanta).
Now the product is designed for RedHat Linux and I am running on the unstable debian branch -- plus I have fonts from hell installed which log various errors in .xsessions. Having said that, the program has simply shut down without leaving much of a trail. I've contacted NuSphere support but am yet to hear back from them (as I am not a paying client and still evaluating the product).
Anyone else have thoughts on NuSphere's PHPEd, please do share them. If you're running under windows, how stable is the environment for the most part?
Have a good one all 🙂
-m.