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Subscribe [25]#46 / Sep 13, 2011 10:25pm
Trev,
Actually I have the EE2 textmate bundle in ST2 right now and it’s working fine. I found the above link this mornign and haven’t yet had a chance to give it a shot to compare.
Wow, there’s now Linux and Mac OS X builds of Sublime Text. I had no idea! Great to have an alternative to Textmate (since development seems fairly slow/stalled).
#47 / Sep 14, 2011 10:10am
PSPad - free and good
#48 / Sep 14, 2011 10:17am
PSPad - free and good
I always thought PSPad felt really clunky and old, like it was straight out of Windows 95. Have they updated? 😊
#49 / Sep 14, 2011 10:45am
Guess it depends on when you last saw it, it’s certainly not flashy. Just installed Webuilder 2011, looks pretty good actually. Might switch guns.
Quite liberating using lightweight editors after years of Visual Studio then Aptana and Zend. Thanks, I think, to EE you don’t need to get too dirty anymore as most of the heavy lifting is dusted.
#50 / Sep 14, 2011 10:47am
I suppose if you’re working with Visual Studio, anything would look good!
#51 / Sep 14, 2011 11:20am
Aha. Used to be on the dark side but switched over a few years back.
#52 / Sep 14, 2011 10:17pm
I’ve lost track. Which side is the ‘dark’ side now? 😊
#53 / Sep 15, 2011 7:02am
Always the opposite one to the one you’re currently on!
#54 / Sep 15, 2011 10:13am
Always the opposite one to the one you’re currently on!
Where’s the like button? oh wait this isn’t facebook.
#55 / Sep 15, 2011 10:20am
Always the opposite one to the one you’re currently on!
Where’s the like button? oh wait this isn’t facebook.
...or Xenforo :coolsmile:
#56 / Oct 04, 2011 2:55am
Notepad++ and WinSCP for secure file handling.
#57 / Mar 05, 2012 10:14am
I use Codelobster PHP Edition + special CodeIgniter plug-in
#58 / Mar 05, 2012 7:54pm
Love that this thread is still going. A couple of months back I switched to SubmlimeText 2 and installed the ExpressionEngine code pack and haven’t looked back.
#59 / Mar 07, 2012 1:45pm
TextPad (http://www.textpad.com/) - been using it for more than a decade (cost me $10 way back in 1999… its nagware, though, so if you can abide the nagging to “keep evaluating” you can use it free forever). It’s pretty basic, but it opens nearly instantly (which is why I truly LOATH pretty much every IDE I’ve ever tried) and what features it does come with have all proven incredibly useful. Over the years I’ve tried every option listed in this thread, plus Netbeans, Eclipse and a few other random editors not listed. I always come back to TextPad for its pure ease of use and it’s fast and simple interface.
EDIT: Sorry, SubmlimeText 2 *is* a new one for me—gonna give that a go 😊
#60 / Mar 08, 2012 7:25am
I’m currently giving SublimeText 2 a spin (OSX).
An essential is the Package Control addon, allows you to install lots of extra bits for ST2, currently using the ExpressionEngine one, tag matcher, indent guides, html5, a few misc others.
Back in my Windows days, i used to use Notepad++