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#1 2005-05-23 7:58 am
Windows Text Editor
We have a list of good text editors up top in the FAQ, but I'm currently working on a Windows machine, so does anyone have any god suggestions for a HTML / PHP text editor, much like Smultron or SubEthaEdit, that DOESN'T run on a Mac?
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#2 2005-05-23 10:16 am
- zakatak
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Re: Windows Text Editor
SourceEdit is acceptable
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#3 2005-05-23 11:08 am
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#6 2005-05-23 4:19 pm
Re: Windows Text Editor
Thanks guys. I'll check out jEdit.
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#7 2005-05-23 4:21 pm
- zakatak
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oh wait... jEdit will run on Mac... and I think you said that you wanted one that would not run on a Mac 
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#8 2005-05-23 4:24 pm
Re: Windows Text Editor
If you can find an old version of Zend Studio they made a personal edition that had a few features disabled.
I'm using that at work and like it better than jEdit - though jEdit is very nice and very extensible.
You should also check out Eclipse and PHPEclipse. Very powerful and extensible and has a built in mySQL query editor. I think once I can dive into this one and really learn it I'll dig it more and more.
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#9 2005-05-23 5:02 pm
- MattElmore
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Re: Windows Text Editor
TopStyle Pro is one I rather like for Windows.
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#11 2005-05-24 3:39 pm
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Re: Windows Text Editor
If it's CSS (and you don't mind a little compiling), try out CSSED. It's mainly for UN*X systems, but it will compile on Windows.
It's suprisingly powerful for the intended use (CSS).
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#12 2005-05-25 12:09 am
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One thing I forgot to mention about PHPEclipse that really floated my boat: Todo lists.
Simply mark comments in the code with TODO: and it'll build a list of things you need to finish...
Kinda nice - and you can edit it to be NOTES, TODO, FOOBAR, whatever and have a combination of different kinds of comments...
That really got my interest.
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#13 2005-05-25 2:04 am
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I mostly use PFE32 (Programmer's File Editor 32). It's old, has some quirks (very non-standard keyboard shortcuts, for instance), but it's a single file .exe file that fits on a floppy, and it doesn't try to write any support files to your disk. No installer, no nothing. Just dump it somewhere and run it.
In other words, no matter what version fo Windows I end up with at a client, and no matter what editor they try to get everyone to use, I can always stick in a floppy with PFE32 or mail it to myself and use that, instead.
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#14 2005-05-25 2:05 am
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Oh, at this particular workplace I'm at they use UltraEdit. From what I've seen so far, it's pretty much OK.
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#15 2005-05-25 3:13 am
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skymt wrote:
Vim is also very powerful, and hard to give up if you've gotten used to it.
Vim is teh 1337 and available for every platform. I'm a bit disappointed with their Tiger version of gvim, though, but it is alpha... (my biggest problem is that you can't paste) that should change soon, though. There's always the command line version, though.
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#16 2005-06-25 1:04 pm
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Onanum wrote:
I second a reccomendation for TopStyle, even the free lite version is super handy when working on monster CSS files.
Let me be the third one on TopStyle. The only thing I might add do for the Professional version it's really 10 times better, althought expensive. Just look for a discount first - Froogle, eBay, PriceGrabber, etc. I got mine from Deprice
http://www.deprice.com/topstylepro.htm
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