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I used to love using Scintilla text editor (yes I know, no-ones heard of it). I loved it because it would have built in funtion names, useful with PHP’s irregular naming conventions 😉
Since i’m developing on a mac now, i’m using TextMate, which I may or may not stick with.
Peace
Rich

I used to love using Scintilla text editor (yes I know, no-ones heard of it). I loved it because it would have built in funtion names, useful with PHP’s irregular naming conventions
Rich

Notepad++ is based on the Scintilla editor. I’ve never tried Scintilla, but how different could those be from each other?

dozends of projects done with Nusphere PhpED, a one time investment boosting my efficiency radically.

No one mentioned Intype.

http://www.intype.info/

It’s incredible. Like the Windows version of textmate. You’ll love it.

What I don’t get is why install it as an eclipse plugin?

Honestly? The true power of Eclipse is very hard to explain in words and really only hits home when you see it in use. But, it really is nothing glorious without a few plugins. My fav’s are:

- FileSync
- Subclipse
- And now, of course, Aptana

Basically, what I do is have my “workspace” (where it saves all the files) somewhere on my computer like “My Documents/workspace” and then use the FileSync plugin to push any file saves to the development server also.

As an example, I might checkout a project from SVN to my workspace and then have it FileSync to the dev server. OR, when working with other developers on a project I can have my workspace in the root of my localhost, so I can immediately see the changes and then use FileSync to push the updates to the development server when I’m ready.

With the SVN options only a right-click away it keeps me from having to touch dirty DOS and when I need to do merges I can do those inside eclipse with the preferred editor for that file-type.

CODA and TextMate

Why Coda? Integrated FTP is Great 😉

Coda AND Textmate? How do you decide which one to use for what?

UltraEdit.  Best $50 you can spend.  At work we use Eclipse, but we still have UE installed simply for column mode editing.  And it’ll do code completion if you mess with it enough.

phpDesigner. I would use ZDE, but it is too expensive. :(

I was loving Aptana since I had my new computer on Windows Vista… A lot of stuff don’t work, but the most anoying one is that the mouse scroll in code views does not work on Vista (this is an eclipse bug, not specially Aptana related) I changed then to NuSpere PhpED witch makes me happy again.

+1 for Scintella

Notepad++

...or even the default editor in WinSCP

I have been using BBEdit for a while, but hearing a lot about Textmate as of late.

Can anyone shed some light on why Textmate is better then BBEdit?

Currently using Dreamweaver - mainly for the ftp feature as I do most of my development on a remote server. 

I’d like to use vi but have not found a good solution on syncing files.  In Dreamweaver, I can edit a file and when I save it, I can upload it to the server at the same time.  Does anyone have a good solution for syncing files to the server when using vi?

I usually edit directly from the server. If I open a file with the FTP option in BBEdit and hit save, it uploads my changes.

If you are on Mac, check this app out. Lets you mount an ftp location as a local drive.
http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive