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I still prefer vi myself
I hear an awful lot about vi being great for programming, but I've never heard why. Care to enlighten me (I'm not denying that it's good; I simply don't know either way)?
MattF wrote:I still prefer vi myself
I hear an awful lot about vi being great for programming, but I've never heard why. Care to enlighten me (I'm not denying that it's good; I simply don't know either way)?
There's just so much you can do with it, if you're inclined to do so. I know most of the Linux distro's tend to set it so that it colourises the text, and highlights errors on the fly, but personally, I detest that bit. I have a Fedora machine that does it, and I personally think it's damned annoying. The thing is, the amount of functionality it has, one would be at it for hours trying to describe it. This page, (the first one I picked from Google), 
will give you a good idea of the appeal:
And just incase that page tickled your fancy, the full vi manpage on the FreeBSD site:
Notepad
Notepad
oh my god i can't imagion why. you must be joking. ha ha. you got me there for a second...
And just incase that page tickled your fancy,
i've used vi for working with HUGE text files. it can handle what other editors choke on.
And just incase that page tickled your fancy,
Yup, manpages are always fun. 
MattF wrote:And just incase that page tickled your fancy,
Yup, manpages are always fun.
MattF wrote:And just incase that page tickled your fancy,
i've used vi for working with HUGE text files. it can handle what other editors choke on.
It is a fine piece of kit. Plus, it's like haveing ed, sed and grep at your fingertips without ever exiting the editor itself. I've tried a few editors, and I always end up back with vi on a terminal session for scripting.
i use vim
http://www.vim.org/
a bit long to master, but when you do, you're superproductive ^^
Notepad++, powerfull and free.
PHP Designer :3 I really like it.
Ultra-Edit32 has a word wrap mode that indents the wrapped text. (You can have the best of both worlds!) It has been my editor of choice for both text and binary files for the last 10 years. However, it runs only under Windows. IMHO it is worth ten times its price. Rock solid with tons of features.
Active State's Komodo IDE is a total solution which handles all types of front and back end code (XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Python, etc) complete with comprehensive debugging support and it runs the same on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, OSx). Although it is extremely powerful and works reliably, it can only be considered bloatware (i.e. on a Windows box, it installs no less than 24MB (2821 files in 43 folders) in the "user/Application Data/" folder and 93MB (3523 files in 312 folders) in the "Program Files/" folder - Yipes!) But as I said, it pretty much does it all, is reliable and runs cross platform. I use it for debugging Javascript and PHP and use Ultra-Edit32 for the actual editing. Note that its little brother: Komodo Edit, is freeware and shares most of its functionality (but is equally bloated).
For (X)HTML and CSS, its hard to beat TopStyle. The developer, Nick Bradbury, has recently started back working on it and a new version will be out fairly soon!
And I must confess that I use MS Visual Studio 6 when coding Win32 C code because of its built-in MSDN context sensitive help system.
p.s. Hi everybody! - I'm new to this world of web development (although my first programs were written in FORTRAN on punch cards back in the '70s), and recently decided to go with PunBB for my forums (I really agree with its: "Keep It Simple Stupid" philosophy).
gedit? nobody?
it has the only needed feature for php.. code snippets.
I heard about scribes... have anyone tried it?
Does anybody knows a editor with php code completion and phpdoc as-you-type like netbeans does with javadoc? That would be my choice, but i haven't heard of it 
Does anybody knows a editor with php code completion and phpdoc as-you-type like netbeans does with javadoc? That would be my choice, but i haven't heard of it
Dreamweaver. But it costs.
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