Comments on: What editor do you use? http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/ Web development and Internet trends Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:23:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Robert Nyman http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-394389 Robert Nyman Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:58:18 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-394389 cl0s, Thanks for sharing! cl0s,

Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: cl0s http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-394269 cl0s Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:11:59 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-394269 I use Ubuntu and basically all I need is Bluefish for coding (PHP). It's very similar to what Homesite on code edit mode was. Only thing missing is an svn plug-in or something for easy check-in/out, commits, etc., for that and more I just use the terminal and ssh :). I use Ubuntu and basically all I need is Bluefish for coding (PHP). It’s very similar to what Homesite on code edit mode was. Only thing missing is an svn plug-in or something for easy check-in/out, commits, etc., for that and more I just use the terminal and SSH :).

]]> By: Robert Nyman http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-59518 Robert Nyman Mon, 14 May 2007 09:47:11 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-59518 Michael, <a href="http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53047" rel="nofollow">John (above)</a> uses it as well. Michael,

John (above) uses it as well.

]]> By: Michael http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-59384 Michael Mon, 14 May 2007 00:15:32 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-59384 Strange... Doesn't any use Ultraedit? I'm also using Homesite - and have been using homesite since hmm... around 1996-7-8 I think... It still works fine! Just so strange with Homesite. It's so great a program but at the same time it's sooo lousy to save proper xml-files and UT8. Took me a long time to realise that it was a bug in Homesite... so sometimes I'm switching to Ultraedit just to save... Strange… Doesn’t any use Ultraedit?

I’m also using Homesite - and have been using homesite since hmm… around 1996-7-8 I think… It still works fine!

Just so strange with Homesite. It’s so great a program but at the same time it’s sooo lousy to save proper XML-files and UT8. Took me a long time to realise that it was a bug in Homesite… so sometimes I’m switching to Ultraedit just to save…

]]> By: howbizarre http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-58122 howbizarre Thu, 10 May 2007 11:46:32 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-58122 Notepad ++ and FrontPage Notepad ++ and FrontPage

]]> By: Robert Nyman http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-57150 Robert Nyman Mon, 07 May 2007 20:56:43 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-57150 Daniel, Thanks for the tips! Daniel,

Thanks for the tips!

]]> By: Daniel Talsky http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-56868 Daniel Talsky Mon, 07 May 2007 03:33:02 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-56868 Holy crap. I can't believe that out of all these people, there aren't more HTML-Kit fans out there. Unfortunately, Chami has started developing the pay-only "HTML-Kit Tools" but their last free version of HTML-Kit (good ol' build 292) is one awesome piece of software. Why? Integrated FTP tree - This is the biggie, you have treeviews of your FTP connections and can open them and edit remote pages on several different connections at one time. You double click a file... it downloads the file and you work on a temp file. Press "save" and it uploads your changes. Tabs: Multi-document with tabs. Context-coloring: For HTML/PHP/CSS/ASP and mixed. Bluefish, and all the other otherwise awesome text editors don't have integrated FTP so you have to have another app open you switch back and forth with. Vim is cool for editing remote files, but I don't have tabs to switch between multiple remote documents (and the ability to view all the document names while I'm working). It's basically like a free version of HomeSite. It's basically like Dreamweaver with code view but you can work on multiple sites at the same time. It's not QUITE as slick as HomeSite... but it's free. Holy crap. I can’t believe that out of all these people, there aren’t more HTML-Kit fans out there. Unfortunately, Chami has started developing the pay-only “HTML-Kit Tools” but their last free version of HTML-Kit (good ol’ build 292) is one awesome piece of software.

Why?

Integrated FTP tree - This is the biggie, you have treeviews of your FTP connections and can open them and edit remote pages on several different connections at one time. You double click a file… it downloads the file and you work on a temp file. Press “save” and it uploads your changes.

Tabs: Multi-document with tabs.

Context-coloring: For HTML/PHP/CSS/ASP and mixed.

Bluefish, and all the other otherwise awesome text editors don’t have integrated FTP so you have to have another app open you switch back and forth with.

Vim is cool for editing remote files, but I don’t have tabs to switch between multiple remote documents (and the ability to view all the document names while I’m working).

It’s basically like a free version of HomeSite. It’s basically like Dreamweaver with code view but you can work on multiple sites at the same time. It’s not QUITE as slick as HomeSite… but it’s free.

]]> By: Robert Nyman http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-56030 Robert Nyman Fri, 04 May 2007 11:46:23 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-56030 Daniel, wioota, Alex, Thanks for sharing! Daniel, wioota, Alex,

Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Alex Leonard http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-56016 Alex Leonard Fri, 04 May 2007 10:26:26 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-56016 I love notepad++ I've tried countless other editors, and none of them come close to it. It's fast and easy to use and alter. Some of the plugins are fantastic too. Quick text is brilliant (although I have moved all my quick text shortcuts over to <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/texter/lifehacker-code-texter-windows-238306.php" rel="nofollow">Lifehacker's Texter</a> developed by <a href="http://adampash.com/" rel="nofollow">Adam Pash</a>, their senior editor. The other major tool I use is <a href="http://www.westciv.com/" rel="nofollow">Stylemaster from WestCiv</a> which was a boon right from the start and I have found that it has consistently saved me time with CSS editing and development. I love notepad++

I’ve tried countless other editors, and none of them come close to it. It’s fast and easy to use and alter. Some of the plugins are fantastic too. Quick text is brilliant (although I have moved all my quick text shortcuts over to Lifehacker’s Texter developed by Adam Pash, their senior editor.

The other major tool I use is Stylemaster from WestCiv which was a boon right from the start and I have found that it has consistently saved me time with CSS editing and development.

]]> By: wioota http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-55916 wioota Fri, 04 May 2007 01:55:13 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-55916 And here I am reading this in FeedDemon - Nick Bradbury has written 3 of my most used Applications. It would be great if someone could supply him with an army of monkeys to maintain his earlier applications as well as he does with FeedDemon. Personally these days I have moved to Eclipse because I jump between PHP, JS, CSS, templates.... Oh and subversion is one of the key development tools - nothing builds confidence like version control. And here I am reading this in FeedDemon - Nick Bradbury has written 3 of my most used Applications. It would be great if someone could supply him with an army of monkeys to maintain his earlier applications as well as he does with FeedDemon.

Personally these days I have moved to Eclipse because I jump between PHP, JS, CSS, templates…. Oh and subversion is one of the key development tools - nothing builds confidence like version control.

]]> By: Daniel Larsson http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-55567 Daniel Larsson Wed, 02 May 2007 19:42:57 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-55567 JEdit and Vi. JEdit and Vi.

]]> By: Robert Nyman http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-55428 Robert Nyman Wed, 02 May 2007 06:57:29 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-55428 michael, Thanks for sharing! michael,

Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: michael mckee http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-55399 michael mckee Wed, 02 May 2007 04:00:51 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-55399 I gave TextMate a solid try and can see why people love it. It is brilliant. I've just used BBEdit for too long to be comfortable in anything else, and it's brilliant, too, in its own way. Of course I've set key bindings to all the included clippings and have added many of my own. I've also used system preferences to add keystrokes to the menu based features I use most frequently as well as a few shell scripts. Once you use a program long enough to customize it thoroughly and have the key strokes hardwired into your fingers, switching to something new is painful. Dreamweaver is useful for updating static sites and for its site management features. I use it for those tasks, as well as when I'm stuck working in Windows. But it is elegant as a hippo out of water, Mac or Windows. I gave TextMate a solid try and can see why people love it. It is brilliant. I’ve just used BBEdit for too long to be comfortable in anything else, and it’s brilliant, too, in its own way. Of course I’ve set key bindings to all the included clippings and have added many of my own. I’ve also used system preferences to add keystrokes to the menu based features I use most frequently as well as a few shell scripts. Once you use a program long enough to customize it thoroughly and have the key strokes hardwired into your fingers, switching to something new is painful.

Dreamweaver is useful for updating static sites and for its site management features. I use it for those tasks, as well as when I’m stuck working in Windows. But it is elegant as a hippo out of water, Mac or Windows.

]]> By: Robert Nyman http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-54843 Robert Nyman Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:22:02 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-54843 Karl, Aldrik, Thanks! Karl, Aldrik,

Thanks!

]]> By: Aldrik http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-54406 Aldrik Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:05:54 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-54406 Oh yeah and vim (of course :))! There's a great FF extention for all you die hard users... <a href="http://vimperator.mozdev.org" rel="nofollow">Vimperator</a> (yet another reason why web accessibility is so important). Oh yeah and vim (of course :))!
There’s a great FF extention for all you die hard users… Vimperator (yet another reason why web accessibility is so important).

]]> By: Karl http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53564 Karl Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:13:45 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53564 Dreamweaver here. Mind you, I only use code view and the bit where it automagically cascades file name changes throughout the project. Rather a memory hog for just that to be honest lol. Dreamweaver here. Mind you, I only use code view and the bit where it automagically cascades file name changes throughout the project. Rather a memory hog for just that to be honest lol.

]]> By: Robert Nyman http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53559 Robert Nyman Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:37:11 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53559 Stuart, Ha ha. :-) Stuart,

Ha ha. :-)

]]> By: Stuart Cruickshank http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53558 Stuart Cruickshank Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:36:14 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53558 I've become a big fan of Aptana recently. I just have to go off and make a coffee while it loads every morning... I’ve become a big fan of Aptana recently. I just have to go off and make a coffee while it loads every morning…

]]> By: Robert Nyman http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53343 Robert Nyman Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:19:48 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53343 Thanks for sharing, guys! Thanks for sharing, guys!

]]> By: Walter http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53334 Walter Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:51:21 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/04/24/what-editor-do-you-use/#comment-53334 I always use vim or gvim. I always use vim or gvim.

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