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+1 for E-Text Editor on Windows, or preferably Textmate on Mac. I’m pretty hooked on Textmate with tons of bundles running and tweaked just right.

Hi all

TrevC would you mind expanding on your (mac/Textmate) setup please? I use Dreamweaver on a mac and can relate on every one of @kgrote’s points.

The EE2.0 Textmate bundle from Mountee is what you guys are looking for. Also, Mountee itself is a must-have, and my new favourite EE tool. You can edit EE templates directly from Textmate without enabling templates-as-files within the control panel.

I’ve also edited my HTML bundle with some personalisations and shortcuts/code-completion type stuff.

Oh, and the look of Textmate itself has been modded using resources from the Textmate site.

I’m sure there’s a bunch more that I’ve forgotten 😊

I wouldn’t touch Dreamweaver with a 10 foot barge pole. Nice editor, but it’s your typical Adobe bloat-fest. More obese with every release.

Or you could go all geeky-like and learn VIM  😊

And go back to using my old 14” CRT monitor while I’m at it.  😊

Thanks TrevC!

Just looking over at Mountee resources… They seem to have a lot of EE resources for Coda as well. Are you able to advise us (me) of why one is better than the other bearing in mind that I do very little PHP work and live in HTML/CSS/EE tags all day.

(We have a dev team here)

Thanks in advance

Coda is more like an IDE for web design/dev. Coda does more out of the box (without configuring/customising). Textmate is just a very capable editor. It’s more personal preference than anything. I find Coda is overkill for my own workflow. Textmate launches in seconds, and has a cult-like following of users. There’s plenty of useful bundles (for Shopify, etc).

I’m fairly certain there’s trials available for both.

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit

UltraEdit is out for Mac…I wonder if any mac users have tried it.

Sublime Text is another nice Windows editor (very modern). There’s a Mac/Linux beta too.

Or you could go all geeky-like and learn VIM  😊

And go back to using my old 14” CRT monitor while I’m at it.  😊

I do my coding on my Commodore 64. Sometimes if it gets heavy i use my Amiga 500 *lol

another vote for notepad++

I’ll vote for Notepad++.

Hi all,

I am also in search of a Dreamweaver replacement. The sole reason that I continue to use Dreamweaver is because it allows you to specify a Local/Network connection for a testing server instead of using FTP. I work out of an SVN repository and “push” files to my local JBOSS server with each save. The location to ‘push’ to is a folder on my desktop. I have not been able to find any other code editor that supports this.

Anyone know of another code editor that can do this???

Someone mentioned this on the first page.  Take a look at the Jetbrains offerings.  I have been trialing their PHP offering for a few days and I’m kind of digging it.

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