I know that quite a few of us do HTML, PHP, ASP, or anything similar. What do you use the most to code with and why?

I've been using Bluefish almost exclusively for the past year or so. (although I've used Kate and Gedit a few times) I do all of my coding (HTML, Perl, PHP, etc. with Bluefish on a Linux system; it just seems better suited to the task to me than anything on Windows ever did. I've used Dreamweaver, (mostly because various full-time jobs have required me to over the years) but It's never felt quite right to me. I always run Apache and PHP5 on my localhost, so I really don't need an internal previewer in my HTML editor for most work.

If I'm doing work over SSH w/o X forwarding, (or if X is broken) I use Nano. I've played with Vim, but no matter how much I use it I've never liked it as much.

I use notepad because it's simple and seems like the right tool for the small scale of the projects I find myself undertaking.

I love pspad http://www.pspad.com/

It will take some fidling with the settings to get tabbing and formatting the exact way you want it, but atleast it gives you the options for doing so.

Notepad2

Notepad

I always liked Crimson Editor. It's been a few years since I've had to do any HTML/PHP work, so I don't know if it's still used/regularly updated.

Thank God I'm not the only person to have discovered this. I love it and use it as my full notepad replacement.

General rundown of stuff:

• Syntax Highlighting with full customization for most all major languages
• RegEx searching, find/replace, text diffs
• Highly customizable
• Portable
• Provides integration with localhost apache/iis servers for quick previewing.
• Basic code completion
• Tabbed interface, and doesn't look like hell.
• Lots of extra stuff like bracket additions, smart spacing, bracket highlighting, etc

It's a little rough around the edges sometimes, but it's 100% free, and I've yet to find another program that is as customizable and usable at the same time. It just has a great feel to me.

Hells yes! But I'm in the same situation as SithGhost... so I'm leaving in four years ago.

I used to do stuff in notepad but I've grown accustomed to using Dreamweaver now. Makes it easier to deal with things like CSS and autocompleting tags. Its preview isn't too reliable so I always test the output in firefox and IE.

For Windows I used Crimson Editor, and despite never coding on my Mac I've got Smultron which appears quite similar to it.

i really liked bluefish when i was using linux on a regular basis. it was tabbed which i really felt i needed. it was the closest thing to editplus2 for linux.

i use editplus2 at the moment on xp but i'm going to try out pspad now that i've seen it. thanks.

For PHP coding at work I use Zend Studio, it just makes everything easier (inbuilt CVS and SFTP for a start).

If I just need to do something really simple I use Crimson Editor.

VIM

VS.NET. It's editor is ok as far as doing some simple HTML/CSS stuff. It has been improved a bit in 2008 version.

Dreamweaver >_> I barely edit HTML so whatever.

For Actionscript its either Flash or SEPY

vi

I see your VIM and raise you a NANO.

Years ago when I was on windows I used to use editplus, it is totally awesome. Nowadays (and for the past 5 years at least) I use gvim, which is just like vim except you get it in a gui window that can be moved around and whatnot. I like it better than vim for the sole reason that I don't have to start a new terminal every time I want to start a new text editor window. I don't use the multi-document stuff in gvim, I just open a new instance for each file. Since I use on virtual desktop for all my editors, it's the same thing as having a tabbed editor (all open windows on that desktop show in the taskbar). Every so often I try other editors, but I am so used to all the vim key bindings that it's really hard to stick with anything else for long.

Yeah if I'm working on a linux platform, VIM, otherwise, either eclipse or notepad depending on the scale of the project.

Kate.

emacs


fo real: notepad++

Notepad++

Word

Gedit or nano.

Crimson Editor or Notepad2.

I've also tried to get into vim, but never could see any benefits to it, besides the feeling of superiority that vi users seem to have.

There are a lot of really nice features. You just have to be willing to learn them one at a time and master them before you move on (it's impossible for a normal human being to just read the manual and know how to do everything from then on out). There are no menus for anything, you just have to memorize the keyboard shortcuts.

I use it because I am a lot faster with it than "regular" non-modal editors. Selecting text in line, block, or character mode, cut/copy/pasting using single keystrokes, search and replace, applying external commands (like perltidy) to selected blocks of code, etc., all with a single keystroke or two makes things really, really fast. I can do the same types of things in other editors, but they always force me to either grab the mouse or at least type a command, tab a few times between input boxes, and then press enter.

For example, to search and replace in vim, you type:

:%s/search_string/replace_string/g

To search and replace in most other text editors, you press ctrl-f to bring up the finder window. They usually have the "search string" input box selected. You type the search string, then you tab over to the replace string, then you tab among some checkboxes that control various options (similar feature in vim is the string after the trailing slash (/g for global in the above example), then press enter. Then when it's done you have to press enter again to close the little window that pops up. Since I code 8 hrs a day, things like this really allow me to get more done.

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Yup, back in my days I was all about editpad pro. Untill my current boss turned me on to dreamweaver.

And having my file/folder structure readily available on the left side of the screen helps out a lot. And the ability to hide selections for the long functions.

I've had issues with dreamweavers FTP but nothing too major..

EditPlus 2 or vim.

Notetab - its like notepad but with tabs! Tabs make everything better.

http://www.notetab.com/

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