Your favourite text editor

Clarkey · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:54

Bit bored so thought i'd make a thread on this, I imagine it has been done before but i searched and didnt find one so here we go.

At home I usually use Notepad++ on windows, but Im just sitting on a mac because all the pc labs are full here at uni. Anyway I found this editor on here called TextWrangler, I thought it wasnt possible to beat Noepad++ but thi really is better imo. Shame its for mac only

When using linux I use Kate, which offers pretty much the same stuff as notepad++.

So, which are your favourites?

Visage · 13 Mar 2006 at 12:17

Textpad or vi.

iCraig · 13 Mar 2006 at 12:22

PSPad

Seft · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:24

Notepad++

1ofaKind · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:19

vi - vim

MrWhippy · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:52

Context on windoze,
Vi elsewhere...

AndyBorzi · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:54

Vim for me

Hades · 13 Mar 2006 at 17:51

PDF (I think it's called) on the main on the Z/OS mainframe. Following that, vi on Unix and vim on Linux.

Goatee · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:33

I'm not too fussy really, so long as it has PHP colour coding. I usually just use DW8 but EditPlus2 is much quicker.

Bloo_Fish · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:59

Zend studio is awesome!

I also use Ultra edit when @ work - its quick - no where near is good as a customised version Zend studio though.

With Zend you can easily customise commands to write code for you, for example i tend to write

PHP:

echo '<pre>'; var_dump($_SESSION); echo '</pre>';

A lot so I can bind that to a combination of keys. You can also customise it so it prompts for a value - so where session is - i can type what ever value i want each time.

Burbleflop · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:13

Ultraedit if using Windows, pico or vi (depending which machine I'm on) in Unix or Linux.

Augmented · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:24

Bloo_Fish said:
With Zend you can easily customise commands to write code for you, for example i tend to write

PHP:

echo '<pre>'; var_dump($_SESSION); echo '</pre>';

A lot so I can bind that to a combination of keys. You can also customise it so it prompts for a value - so where session is - i can type what ever value i want each time.

Ooo, now that would be pretty handy to have as a shortcut. I found Zend Studio a bit cluttered and slow for my liking, but I didn't give it much chance really; looks a very good PHP editor though. I think there should be some kind of dev or debug extension for PHP that adds one-liner functions like a print_r_pre($foo) or var_dump_globals().

I'm a Scite user. Got it customised exactly how I need it, and it suits me perfectly.

robmiller · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:30

I've been flirting with Eclipse and its PHP plugin recently, seems pretty nice.

iCraig · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:34

robmiller said:
I've been flirting with Eclipse and its PHP plugin recently..

Promise me you'll never say that, ever again. Ever.

tntcoder · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:40

Notepad++

derfderfley · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:44

tntcoder said:
Notepad++

or EditPad 3.4.1 (which is a old version but very fast).

Under *nix it would be vi, I don't like it, but I've got used to it over the years

Dru · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:46

Textmate all the way (on the mac that is)

Una · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:01

Vim or Kate.

robmiller · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:19

iCraig said:
Promise me you'll never say that, ever again. Ever.

Are you referring to my usage of Eclipse or my referring to said usage as flirting?

Either way I loved doing it and would happily do so again.

iCraig · 13 Mar 2006 at 21:46

robmiller said:
Are you referring to my usage of Eclipse or my referring to said usage as flirting?

Either way I loved doing it and would happily do so again.

****.