What's your IDE?

[JayM]

I've been researching some good editors/ide's lately. Can't seem to find one that does a good job with php, coldfusion, and asp.net. I thought we'd share what IDE's we work with, and some information about them so everyone can benefit.

I use Macromedia Homesite for php/coldfusion, and Microsoft Visual Web developer for .net. I plan on trying out web matrix next for .net as I hear it rocks and is free.

I love homesite, but the fact that it's discontinued worries me, and I need to shift to a new IDE.

So the question to all of you.

1. What language(s) are you programming in?
2. What editor/IDE do you use?

[drhowarddrfine]

vi/vim and I like geany. Wish I knew Emacs. Do C, assembly, HTML and CSS and javascript.

[\\.\]

I use Notepad++ for scripting and Dreamweaver for HTML because of its ease of use, which I say with an erring BUT! Because of the way it handles a frameset page, that gets right up my kilt. Rather not go into it but it really is annoying how it sets the focus for editing... Grrrrrrrr.

[Jeff Mott]

I also vote for Notepad++. I also use gedit when I'm using Ubuntu (Linux).

[MstrBob]

HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/) is where it's at! :p

[potterd64]

TextPad is a favorite of mine, its a pretty versatile text editor that provides meaningful syntax highlighting for many different file types. It doesn't really work well as a project management tool though.
For most of my stuff I use Eclipse and the MyEclipse plugin. MyEclipse is great for any java web app, you can control your server and deploy your applications very easily from within the IDE.

[ryanbutler]

Tells you how bored I am currently...no particular IDE, depends on what I'm doing...but typically DW for web development in general, PS Pad for PHP, JS, Visual Studio for .NET stuff and Vim for working with tab-delimited text files from the IBM AS400 at work, which then is read in through PHP, that's a fun exercise, data sanitation.

Languages, HTML, CSS, JS, VB.NET, ASP.NET, PHP, SQL, a little XML and some Action Scripting. Although my experience in each vary somewhat.

[Stephen Philbin]

I use jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) for most of my editing. It's by far my favourite. I even ditched Debian (the first non-Suse distro I had ever started to warm to) to be able to use it again. I use Vim ("Vi" launches vim on my computer) for the odd little thing here and there: tweaking configuration files, cron, and putting together very short Bash scripts, but that's about it. For anything larger, I go straight back to jEdit. Vim is just far too cumbersome to be able to provide editing as fast and productive as jEdit (or most IDEs for that matter).

The technologies I use are HTML, XML, XSL, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL and Bash. There might be others, but if there are, I can't remember 'em right now.

jEdit does get the syntax highlighting wrong on PHP object member notation, though. It Only highlights the object up to the '->' section, then considers the member name to be some misplaced literal or something. They did make it right at some point so it would correctly highlight the entire $object->member section, but they seem to have decided to inexplicably recall that improvement. That's my only niggle with it though.

[drhowarddrfine]

Vim is just far too cumbersome to be able to provide editing as fast and productive as jEdit (or most IDEs for that matter).Probably not. You need to immerse yourself into vi/vim. Once you get into it, it outshines all others.

[Stephen Philbin]

Perhaps we're not thinking of the same vim, then. The vi I have installed doesn't provide me with fast and simple access to nearly as many features as my jEdit does.

Same story with Konqueror. Application-wise and in terms of cpu usage, mv [file_path] [file_path] is much faster, but you'll never be able to type that faster than you can drag and drop.

It all depends what you're doing. On the flip-side, it'd still be much easier to move files on the command line if you're moving files of a particular type or match a certain expression. Much faster than looking at every file in a particular directory (or even group of directories) and trying to visually identify each file that matches your criteria.

Generally jEdit (and the like) prove faster and more productive for my needs the majority of the time. I tend only to bother with vi if I'm already on a CLI window or there's only a CLI available.

I guess a lot of it also just boils down to what you're used to and how you prefer to do things.

[Mr Initial Man]

Crimson Editor all the way.

[MarcD]

I use Notepad++ for everything

[Mr Initial Man]

Actually, what I said was kind of a fallacy. I use Microsoft Word for my webpages. *Looks around to see who all has heart attacks.*

[drhowarddrfine]

Perhaps we're not thinking of the same vim, then. The vi I have installed doesn't provide me with fast and simple access to nearly as many features as my jEdit does.Haven't done more than just looked at jEdit. Just another GUI editor to me but, like I said, only looked at it and uninstalled so don't know anything in depth about it.

I can drag/drop in KDE or Gnome so you can use gvim and drag/drop, too. Never have to use a mouse with vi/vim. Never take my hands off the keyboard.

[drhowarddrfine]

I use Microsoft Word for my webpages.Word doesn't create web pages. Word creates %$#@$%^@#^. (Reaches for aspirin for heart).

[Mr Initial Man]

Word doesn't create web pages. Word creates %$#@$%^@#^. (Reaches for aspirin for heart).


LANGUAGE! :eek:

[CrazyMerlin]

On daily basis I do php, html, css and javascript.
I use Zend Studio for all of them.

If I need to design something visually (not very often) I use MS Web Expression.

I've used Zend for a while now and find it good once you have it settled into your system...it can be quirky. Just look at their site forums...lol

I tried a few other editors in the last 2 years but always came back to Zend.
Pricey but worth it.

//erlin!

[toicontien]

I use HTML Kit on Windows, though I don't like it because it doesn't support UTF-8. The newer version of HTML kit does, but you've got to purchase a license to download beta software. Yuck. I'm in the process of switching to Mac OS. I've evaluated Coda (http://www.panic.com/coda/) for a while and found it to be the best text editor on Mac OS. It's $75 for a license, but I'm not above paying for software if it's:

a) A tax write off (it is :))
b) Helps me do my job faster
c) Allows me to ditch Windows as my developer OS

And Coda will allow all three.

Languages I use are HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Smarty, PHP. Some Perl.

[replica]

wow, I had no idea so many other people used notepad++. I too find it to be a great simple editor for most of the work at home. I use the Port Ruby Blue style on it and my eyes never seem to get tired. =)

At the office they have me using VS 2005 so I like working from home.

For quick fixes on remote files it's vim.

I guess the only IDE there was VS 2005. though one can compile from vim so, in my books, it counts.

[NogDog]

I use HTML-Kit, too (mainly for PHP and HTML). It ain't perfect, but does pretty much everything I need it to, plus I'm used to it.

[the fonejacker]

Notepad++ here.