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[matrixindicator]

I started after a long time, back with some website stuff. I use(d) Crimson Editor. Its a nice one, development of it seem to be finished. You goth Notepad++ this seem very large. Are there any personal recommendations on good FREE Editors?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Are there any personal recommendations on good FREE Editors?

MCEdit. It is Midnight Commander's built-in editor.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[vacunita]

Of course it depends on what you want out of an editor.

Syntax Highlighting? Element Buttons? WYSIWYG capable?
All those things will determine what editor you may want to use.

I personally use mostly just Windows Notepad.

but Perhaps you may want to look into
Eclipse, Bluefish, even something like PHP Designer even if you don't do PHP, as its editor is very good.


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[matrixindicator]

personally some highlighting is welcome, colored text, like in Crimson Editor. I use the mix xhtml + css + PHP. I don't like Eclipse, it reminds me to much on Java. I look up a few screenshots of Bluefish, PHP Designer, MCEdit.

 

[ggriffit]

I personally use TextPad, which is shareware, and includes the syntax highlighting and lots of other useful addons and functionality.

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/

 

[matrixindicator]

1. First impression Bluefish looks great and up to date and free.
2. When serious .php efforts, development PHP Designer looks a very good tool. You have to pay, but it seems it worth.

 

[OsakaWebbie]

I vote for Notepad++. I tried several others before I found one that does the syntax highlighting correctly - it seems that many code editors lose track of what it going on if you have, for example, a PHP file that contains echo statements of HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc. within it. You say N++ is large, but many development systems I tried were larger and more confusing - I just wanted an editor with good syntax highlighting and search capabilities, and N++ is the right balance of features for me.

 

[spamjim]

I like Geany as a light (but still very capable) app and Aptana Studio as a fuller app. Both are free and easily google-able.

 

[spamjim]

I was checking out some of the other editors mentioned in this discussion and realized there is way too much information on the internet to compare editors. I'm dizzy now from all the tables on the following pages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML_editors

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I used to use TextPad, but now use Eclipse for all my development, as it lets me sync win an SVN repo, and has syntax highlighting for almost all languages you'll use (for me HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, JSP, GSP).

I still switch into TextPad now and again for using the regular expression search-and-replace as Eclipse just doesn't seem to do it as well.

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