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Currently I am using e-Text Editor (which now has built in FTP and can handle most TextMate bundles and plays nice with SVN. All shortcuts are editable and syntax highlighting is limited by imagination. Code completion is tied to the TM bundles and they have had some odd changes lately but nonetheless I find it fast and lean.

Immediately prior (and still have installed) use HTML-Kit since it has excellent ftp for live edits.

I am mostly a designer but I wouldn’t move back to using Dreamweaver because I don’t need to eat 250 MB ram for a text-editor. Once I learned that I could actually develop faster in code view I ditched it for Notepad++ then HTML-Kit and now e.

I’ve also used Eclipse with PDT on some personal PHP projects but I find it clunky but the QuantumDb Plugin is kick a$$ and way faster than using phpMyAdmin.

I would never -ever use the synching files in DW again since its FTP is clearly pushing golfballs through garden hoses. I edit locally and push changed files manually. In addition, having DW + Fireworks + Illustrator + Photoshop == 0 Productivity as it crippled my (at the time) machine. I guess Adobe felt that people had 1GB of RAM (back then) they may as well use it all. Illustrator has tonnes of unresolved Bugs. Bye Bye Creative Suite. The only adobe app I regularly use is Fireworks since it hasn’t been butchered by Adobe’s bloatware team.

I’ll definately look at Aptana for PHPdev.

I now use Netbeans, although will probably be switching to Eclipse, as thats what I’ll be using in my new job soon
I used to be a big dreamweaver fan back in my windows days, but stopped after MX2004, and looking back on it, there wasn’t really anything that spectacular with it.

For people using Coda… how do you locate a piece of code… imagine a big html.. in dreamweaver a just click an image, for example, then switch to code view, and there is my img ta selected.. I think its the ONLY thing a really really miss from all other editors..

I used to use Dreamweaver MX exclusively, until I realised that it was pretty useless for PHP as well as HTML with CSS markup (its “realtime” rendering of CSS-based-HTML was next to useless).

After checking out some other editors (including Eclipse – too slow), I settled on Notepad++ (with the functions list add-in) and Filezilla FTP – which are both free and excellent applications.

If your a decent typist (which most of you should be), it’s worth learning the (important) keyboard shortcuts as they save so much time.

I still use Dreamwaver MX for advanced HTML/CSS tasks, but only when I have to.

@Vicente - Coda isnt a WYSIWYG editor like dreamweaver. thats why its so awesome cause its not bloated by a shitty WYSIWYG viewer. coda is basically notepad on steroids with a bunch of awesome features wrapped around it. for instance the search has the ability to have wild cards for find and replace that save me loads of time…

Depending on my mood:
- Dreamweaver
- ConTEXT
- Notepad
- Editplus

I’m still bouncing around from editor to editor.

I was just introduced to Eclipse and I like its functionality for Version control and stuff, but it seems a bit clunky to me. I am always having repository issues that are only fixed in the command line. Eclipse is always confused.

I use Dreamweaver a lot, but I feel like it bogs my computer down (all CS4 products seem to do that..heh..) I love DW’s CSS hints. I am most comfortable in Dreamweaver.

Last night, I re-discovered Coda and   🐛 really loving the Subversion functionality and some of the other perks, like FTP, SSH, Books, Split Windows, and some of the 3rd party plugins are really helpful.

For something lightweight and easy to get to, I have TextMate.

I don’t think there’s one “right” application. I feel more comfy in some programs vs. others…so I am constantly switching back and forth.

I have problem with eclipse , its related to importing project hierachy / structure of files. Can nested projects be deployed in eclipse. Everytime changing to hierachy of files generates different errors. Is there any other editor any one can recommand for that.

Thanks

+1 for Coda

Used BBEdit, Textmate, Dreamweaver, and few others in the past, but for Mac, it’s Coda.

Vim <- mostly
Netbeans <- rarely, just in case my Vim broke
gEdit <- default my Ubuntu system

a while ago, I used Aptana as my primary editor. But it make my hands hurt when moving to arrow keys too frequently. So, I decided to change with Vim.
At first it hard to adapt with Vim that has several variations then some editors. At last, I enjoy use Vim.

sorry for my bad english :D