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Re: best editor [message #175449 is a reply to message #175377]

Tue, 27 September 2011 15:33

Alan Meyer
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Registered: September 2011

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On 9/13/2011 7:09 AM, bob wrote:
> What is the best editor to use for php code on Mac?

Vim (and gvim) and Emacs are two editors that emerged out of the UNIX
world decades ago. Both are free, portable to many different operating
systems (UNIX/Linux, Mac, Windows, and many others too), extensible, and
supported by a large open source programming community. Both are
designed as programmer's editors but are adaptable for many other uses
as well. Both are based on command sets that have been adopted by other
implementers so that there are actually alternate versions available of
both. Both are well documented and have good support in the newsgroups.

Both of these editors are feature rich but complex. They require some
investment in learning time to make good use of them. You may not want
to get into that. However, if you use a text editor all day long for
many different tasks on several different computers and OSes, with plain
text and different computer languages, as I do, you might find one of
them to be a very versatile tool.

Both also have interesting add ons. One of my favorites is the Emacs
"org mode" which is a kind of outliner on steroids with some very nice
features.

Being free is nice too, not just for the initial acquisition, but also
for all the updates you might need down the road as the editors evolve
and for when the version you have no longer works on the next computer
you buy.

Alan

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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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