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Phpdesigner.  I create, edit, save/upload, etc all in phpdesigner

ZDE ( Zend Development Environment ) annoying builder but good environment. Aptana is okay too. 😊

I have a long history programming (18 years) .. I started on an old Apple IIe that was given to me 😊 went through my Amiga years using the ced editor and then unix and emacs ..

Ah CED.. Now thats an editor 😊 Would have been perfect if it had syntax higlighting then 😊 Back in the days that was THE editor. I dont remember good as that on any platform. As an old amiga-man you must know where my avatar comes from :cheese:

I do all my development on OS X—for web stuff (PHP, Python, Ruby, JScript) I use Coda. I’ve been known to edit stuff in MacVim from time-to-time as well.

NuSphere PhpED is my favorite editor for now. There is no PHP formatter but other features are good. I like CTRL+D hotkey to duplicate selected line or text 😊

I use vim exclusively for programming and config file editing. Once you get a handle on the commands, editing code in a standard editor feels tediously slow. For example, with vim, you can place the cursor practically anywhere in the document instantly with a couple of keystrokes. In a GUI-style editor, you’re left with either the cursor keys or moving your hand over to the mouse, both of which are grossly inefficient.

On the other hand, I can’t use vim for writing text (like documentation or this blog post) because its simply not as well designed for it.

I’ve tried using Eclipse which was too bloated for my liking while vi(m) was just a wee bit too hardcore 😜

At the moment I’m using gEdit on Linux, which is a happy medium between the other two. Out of the box it’s not perfect but there’s a wealth of plugins out there to make life easier

As I develop both under windows and linux, I have choosen Eclipse PDT.
Satisfied with my choice ... until now 😉

Zend 5.5.0 for now. i tried php designer but is not so eficient

I use vim exclusively for programming and config file editing. Once you get a handle on the commands, editing code in a standard editor feels tediously slow. For example, with vim, you can place the cursor practically anywhere in the document instantly with a couple of keystrokes. In a GUI-style editor, you’re left with either the cursor keys or moving your hand over to the mouse, both of which are grossly inefficient.

On the other hand, I can’t use vim for writing text (like documentation or this blog post) because its simply not as well designed for it.

I have to agree that almost every GUI editor out there feels tediously slow compared to vim, except for UltraEdit.  I’ve been using version 14 and just upgraded to version 15.  Started with version 5 back in 98. 

I can type “Ctrl-G 3048/10” and go instantly to line 3048 column 10.  So it makes it easy for me to get around without having to grab the mouse, but gives the convenience of a mouse for those who like it as well.  Everything can be done through keystrokes and commands.  You can even run scripts and macros against files from the command line with it, without having to actually open up the editor. 

I keep UltraEdit open 10 or more hours a day, both for work and general use.  It gives me the speed and usability of something small and efficient like vim, but also gives the power and features of every major GUI and then some. 

And if you need to write a blog post or documentation with it, it’s got built in, 100,000 word spell checker that you can localize for many languages.

Of course, right now it is only available for Windows, but will be released soon for both Linux and Mac.

I’ve found NetBeans to be “peppier” than the Eclipse-base IDEs while still being cross-platform and at the right price (free) yet giving most of the same functionality. PHPDesigner is pretty good, too, but is not free (though reasonably priced) but has a few quirks that until fixed/changed will probably keep me from using it (especially the inability to do mutli-line search/replaces).

Another vote for vim although I use Netbeans nowadays for most PHP development. Code completion is handy, as is instant php function lookup (always forget the order of $needle, $haystack etc since PHP is mostly mix and mash of different styles), and xdebug support is a must. I also use gEdit a lot just because it’s fast and after a bit of tweaking it’s a pretty good editor.

One the few occasions I ‘have’ to use windows, I prefer Notepad++ because it’s free, or gVim for Windows.

Netbeans.

A similar thread (but specific to editor for CI):

What editor are you igniting your code with?

I use TextMate (OSX), it’s amazingly simple and easy to use.

Just tried netbeans today.  I liked it, but had trouble pulling code from svn into a project.  Ended up making a commit to the repo somehow?  For now, I’ll stick w/ Eclipse, but will check out all the others.