Favorite text editor

[bruizerbeans]

I’ve been testing out text editors for a few days and I think I found my fave, Komodo Edit. I’m on windows and I wish I could test out Textmate and Coda. Those of you using Windows,

What is your favorite editor?

On Mac, Whats your Favorite?

What others would you suggest for me to try?

[kb2tfa]

I’m on Linux, but what I use is cross platform and free.

I use the latest netbeans editor netbeans.org

It has remote edit, like coda. I have my whole remote site on it, and I can edit/save to the remote site.

works great.

[TheDoc]

I use Dreamweaver at work (PC) and at home (Mac).

I know people whine about the price tag, but you’re certainly not buying it alone, you’re getting it as a part of a creative suite (most designers and developers are going to need access to Photoshop and Illustrator at least).

I like its FTP function (despite some extremely minor complaints about it lagging occasionally). I enjoy the auto closing tags (which you can also find in the majority of other editors). All in all, most of us are using a CS of some sort, why not use the program that comes with it?

[bruizerbeans]

"TheDoc" wrote:

I use Dreamweaver at work (PC) and at home (Mac).

I know people whine about the price tag, but you’re certainly not buying it alone, you’re getting it as a part of a creative suite (most designers and developers are going to need access to Photoshop and Illustrator at least).

I like its FTP function (despite some extremely minor complaints about it lagging occasionally). I enjoy the auto closing tags (which you can also find in the majority of other editors). All in all, most of us are using a CS of some sort, why not use the program that comes with it?

I have Dreamweaver CS4. I like it but I don’t like that it is a resource hog. I would rather save my memory for Photoshop and Illustrator. Other then that I do use it when I forget certain CSS and HTML tag.

When I use other text editors, I like how I am forced to hand-code. This helps me learn and remember HTML and CSS.

[TheDoc]

"bruizerbeans" wrote:

When I use other text editors, I like how I am forced to hand-code. This helps me learn and remember HTML and CSS.

For the record, I ONLY hand code in DW.

[bruizerbeans]

"TheDoc" wrote:

For the record, I ONLY hand code in DW.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you didn’t hand-code. I was just saying that Dreamweaver makes me lazy when I use it because it is so much easier for me to use the nifty tools available on Dreamweaver. :D

[Matt]

Lately, I’ve been completely using Ruby and Yaml, so I would have to say RubyMine. I use HAML and SASS for the HTML/CSS (respectively), RJS for Javascript (does what I need) and rails is my main framework of choice. RubyMine is the best IDE I’ve found for the job.

[bzmillerboy]

I use Dreamweaver to hand code but just because it came with CS3 (which I got for photoshop). I tested Coda and loved it, would be great to use but I can’t justify $100 when I already have DW.

I agree DW is a resource hog.

[akeenlabs]

I can’t count the number of times I’ve gone back to the drawing board looking for the perfect text editor nor the number of text editors I’ve tried. If you’re looking for a real text editor I think Ultra Edit will fit your perfectly: http://www.ultraedit.com. It’s column mode feature is unique and very, very useful.

Also, Dreamweaver is NOT a text editor; sorry to all the DW fans. It has the capability to edit text files, but it lacks a number of features that should be available from a text editor. It’s a web editor and IMHO not a very good one at that.

[TheDoc]

"akeenlabs" wrote:

Also, Dreamweaver is NOT a text editor; sorry to all the DW fans. It has the capability to edit text files, but it lacks a number of features that should be available from a text editor. It’s a web editor and IMHO not a very good one at that.

I’d love to hear your reasoning behind this.

Color coding, snippets, auto complete, ftp…

[akeenlabs]

"TheDoc" wrote:

I’d love to hear your reasoning behind this.

Snippets, auto complete, ftp, etc are all features of a development environment (I realize that Ultra Edit, my example text editor, does have ftp capabilities, but I should note that only in some of the most recent versions :) ). Typically, IDEs have much fewer "power tools" for manipulating text. While that has changed some in the past few years with bigger and more bloated IDEs, I still think there is a line between the two. For example, finely-tuned control over find and replace, column editing, hex editing and scripting/macros are features typically only found in text editors. Don’t get me wrong, I use both, I just think there is a time and a place for each.

[Matt]

"TheDoc" wrote:

"akeenlabs" wrote:

Also, Dreamweaver is NOT a text editor; sorry to all the DW fans. It has the capability to edit text files, but it lacks a number of features that should be available from a text editor. It’s a web editor and IMHO not a very good one at that.

I’d love to hear your reasoning behind this.

Color coding, snippets, auto complete, ftp…

With you on that. I don’t use DW from day to day, but I used to when I was big into PHP development. DW is a complete, fully featured editor with plenty-a-helpings of extra odds and ends.

[TheDoc]

Fair enough. I didn’t mean to antagonize or anything, was simply curious.

I use it at work because that’s simply what we have installed on our machines. Due to my familiarity with it, I use it at home as well. I keep on putting off trying Coda, I should really give it a go.

[kb2tfa]

"xheathen" wrote:

Anyone wanna team up and just develop a Coda-clone for Windows? We’d be the coolest kids in town :)

Already been done http://www.netbeans.org. I use it for all my remote sites. view all remote files, sync, edit, snippets…

[federicosil]

Gedit on Linux

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