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Re: best editor [message #175452 is a reply to message #175377]

Wed, 28 September 2011 18:14

tamouse
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Out of the box, I'd probably say Eclipse with PDT. If you work in many, many languages and want support for all kinds of text editing capabilities, TextMate can't be beat, with the caveat that it costs money. (I bought it several years ago and couldn't be more pleased with it.) I haven't used TextWrangler, though, so I can't really compare there. As others have also mentioned, good ol' Vi(m) and Emacs are also worth contenders.

The problem with anyone making a go at "best editor..." is that you tend to imprint on a particular editor and stick with it through thick and thin as long as it works for you. If you currently have no preference for editor (say, for example, you're coming from the Notepad.exe world of Windows and are new to developing on the Mac) pretty much any of the editors listed here will be a step up.

The mac does have vim and emacs (non-GUI) preinstalled, so you could give those a go before you jump into something like Eclipse+PDT or TextMate/Wrangler if you want. Knowing vim will let you edit on *any* *nix-based system anywhere, so it's a good thing to know anyway.

There is a version of emacs for the mac called Aquamacs. I tried this and I have to say, as a regular emacs user, I found it to have broken too many things emacsish to me. For a GUI emacs, I just use the GNU Emacs available from macports.

That said, jumping into Eclipse+PDT as an integrated IDE is pretty cool way to develop php (and other code).

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		best editor By: bob on Tue, 13 September 2011 11:09
		Re: best editor By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 13 September 2011 11:24
		Re: best editor By: Gregor Kofler on Tue, 13 September 2011 11:34
		Re: best editor By: Tim Streater on Tue, 13 September 2011 11:54
		Re: best editor By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 13 September 2011 15:18
		Re: best editor By: A on Tue, 13 September 2011 17:42
		Re: best editor By: A on Tue, 13 September 2011 17:47
		Re: best editor By: Michael Vilain on Wed, 14 September 2011 03:44
		Re: best editor By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 14 September 2011 11:57
		Re: best editor By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Wed, 14 September 2011 12:29
		Re: best editor By: Federico Mendez on Wed, 14 September 2011 23:58
		Re: best editor By: Gregor Kofler on Thu, 15 September 2011 08:24
		Re: best editor By: Denis McMahon on Thu, 15 September 2011 20:01
		Re: best editor By: Chris Riesbeck on Fri, 16 September 2011 17:38
		Re: best editor By: Twayne on Sat, 17 September 2011 00:00
		Re: best editor By: hasitha on Fri, 16 September 2011 23:34
		Re: best editor By: bgulian(at)gmail(dot)com on Sat, 17 September 2011 13:38
		Re: best editor By: sajin on Fri, 23 September 2011 04:26
		Re: best editor By: Alan Meyer on Tue, 27 September 2011 15:33
		Re: best editor By: tamouse on Wed, 28 September 2011 18:14
		Re: best editor By: Tim Streater on Wed, 28 September 2011 19:47

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