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I forgot to mention that 'local file manager', or project manager would be a great deal!

notepad cuz im hardcore+ lolz

step 1: get a Mac.
step 2: buy Textmate :)

Wordpad, if I'm feeling frisky and have my laptop available, Dreamweaver.

@paularms:
ASAP!
:)

Textmate :) best editor there is

Crimson editor mostly :)

I use textmate, but I have yet to even begin to use any of it's featureset other than basic editing and projects/file grouping.

Maybe one day I'll see what all the fuss is about and understand why I shelled out the $$ for it :)

Over the last few weeks, I've actually been looking for a replacement myself. I had been using PSPad. I still like it, but wanted something more customizable.

I'm still deciding between my 2 finalists, but it's come down to ScITE and jEdit. Both can pretty much be customized to an extreme degree. Both are cross platform (I spend about an equal amount of time on Linux and Windows). Both can be extended with scripting languages (so you can add whatever you think is missing). Both can be bent toward your preference in keyboard or mouse. Both have the capability to do themed color syntax highlighting and code folding. Both have a Textmate-style snippet extension.

Beyond that, both can be used in their basic sense, without having to learn any new way of working. At several different points, I've looked at really taking a go at vi and emacs and both got in my way.

I'm leaning more toward jEdit as my primary as it's a bit more organized in its customization. However, I'll still be using ScITE for things like syntax-highlighted PDF's of code and quick-n-dirty edits.

Oh, and incidentally, I *have* a Mac. I'd buy Textmate if it, too, would work on all of my computers: Mac, Windows and Linux.

Thanks for this discussion.
I was looking for an editor like jedit. :)

PSPad Editor. It's free, has syntax highlighting, and ftp.

I use Visual Studio 2005 for C#/.NET/ASP.NET. Anything else, I use SciTE.

@jwynia
that's another point very important: cross-plataform compatibility.

today I tried Aptana... but it's too much like eclipse, and consumes a lot of memory too.

@colorcharge
Thats the same reason I don't use Eclipse or any other Java-based program, they're just too resource hungry. Eclipse is an excellent IDE, but at least on Windows there are some better alternatives. On OS X there are some pretty good text editors like TextMate. The only time I use Java-based apps is when I'm in Linux and there isn't really anything better so I'll take the resource hit.

I use Zend Studio and have been for a couple years now. It's got everything you need. Code collapse, syntax highlight, subversion/csv support, project manager, built in FTP, multi-tab and customizable interface, code suggestion, PHP code snippet library, SQL manager, etc.. It costs a good penny (Standard is $99 and Pro is $299), but I like it. I believe you can download a trial too. Oh, and also it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux I believe.

Also, an editor you may want to keep an eye on: Intype. It's only in the beginning stages of development (Alpha 0.2), but looks promising. I'd check back at it in a month or so to see where it's at. Too early to really say anything concrete about it.

I'm a fan of Eclipse, a multipurpose IDE that handles a variety of languages. There are extensions for almost any language, CF Eclipse being the main IDE used for Coldfusion development. There are hooks for a lot more than just text editing in Eclipse though, such as ANT, which opens up worlds of possibilities, as well as CVS and Subversion support.

Crimson Editor, but I only ever code tiny things on it. The odd php file or function definition.

At work I have to use Visual Studio 2003 which is a pile of poo, at least when it comes to Reporting Services. It's not so bad for vb.NET but if you try using the graphical designer for ASP.NET, you have to keep cleaning up the code. :(

I'm a big EMACS fan and looked for something similar on the DOS/Windows platform during the 90s. It had be be programmable. My first choice since then is Epsilon, an EMACS clone (http://www.lugaru.com). But having only one editor is not enough for me: so I use Eclispe, UltraEdit, ... too.

Another vote for TextMate; without a doubt the best editor out there.

I use vim/gvim for editing code. However, I end up using an IDE like Eclipse when I have to debug the code. For writing, it is primarily vim/gvim across programming languages and platforms.

Just another Windows-based developer voting for SciTE.

Notepad++ for me. I find there's so much control with it; easy for me to adjust the text size, syntax colorings, and even the font size of certain types of syntax.

I'm not sure about the CSS panel, but it has everything else you listed, including recognition of the Ruby language.

Here's a little screencap from of some of my site's code in Notepad++.

TextMate on Mac. Any sort of Vim on PC.

...so far there are 14 programs mentioned above:

• Dreamweaver
• TextMate
• JEdit
• SciTE
• PSPad
• Aptana
• Eclipse IDE
• CF Eclipse
• Visual Studio 2005
• Zend Studio
• InType
• Crimsom Editor
• Notepad++
• VIM

Thank you for helping on this discussion.

Textmate here.

I also use PHP Designer and Dreamweaver in coder-mode from time to time. Dreamweaver has excellent auto-completion, I'd say the fastest auto-completion only behind Visual Studio. I like PHP Designer because it has a pretty awesome hybrid color-syntax mode where it properly color-codes syntax in multiple languages (PHP/HTML/JS/CSS) all in the same file.

Ima gonna vote for gVim.

dreamweaver.

It used to be notepad++, but I like PSPad better. For projects I use Aptana/Eclipse or Zend Studio, but those are IDEs

If it's HTML we're talking about, I like Chami HTML-Kit, for its code validation and filtering, and the "Prototype Pad" for simple WYSIWYG.

PS: I actually found Microsoft FrontPage to be a decent HTML editor, believe it or not. Good Style handling and layout, and friendly. I think it was unfairly blamed for Word's horrible HTML. I didn't find FrontPage alone included more than a few unnecessary lines, which were easily excised.

As a Lazy Linux Luva, I have 2 recommendations:

Bluefish (Linux) - my web dev code editor of choice. It's the biz!

RadRails (Cross-platform) - What I use for Ruby on Rails

Man I need to update my stuff. I'm still using notepad for all my coding :(, not that I do much, anyway.

Could you please tell us why did you choose this, not that editor? If it´s being used at work. The advantages, the problems.. thanks!

For text editing with syntax highlighting, I've been using UltraEdit since 1997.

For WYSIWYG html and other editing, I'd probably go with XSitePro or Dreamweaver.

Ubuntu Linux

Bluefish - advanced text editor
gedit - text editor
vi - command line

When i construct something non-trivial i use IntelliJ IDEA.

It has very good html/css/js support and they also published a plugin for ruby that offers pretty much for now and will be improved.

Otherwise i use VIM or Bred3

and don´t forget the RadRails!

vs.php

Kubuntu Linux. Usind the Bluefish only for PHP and the Text Editor Kate for the Markup and Eclipse for Java.

Bluefush has a nice Highlighter for PHP and Kate is fast and eas to use.

If there is only an MS, I prefer to use the Editor for PHP and the Markup.

Hmm, lets see..

Ruby: Scite, Komodo
Rails: RadRails
Python/PHP: Komodo
HTML: Textpad
Unix/Linux: gVim

Best overall.. Komodo, it's a very good jack of all trades.

I have a mac and I use textmate. =)

Komodo has recently added a free version that doesn't have all of the IDE stuff, but is a very capable general purpose editor. It's built in XUL (like Firefox and Thunderbird) and uses Scintilla (ScITE) as the text editor control. It's really a decent editor.

http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/

I use TextMate for everything when i am on a mac. On a pc i'm not sure.

Dreamweaver is the best

if doing programming using microsoft toolz,no dount will be using visual studio IDE.

if open source, i would go for dreamweaver for css'ing and design. (ofcox minor codings) normally, using jedit or notepad++

I currently use the beta of E, mostly because its relatively light and feels good. (I've also used Dreamweaver and Eclipse but loathed the latter, and tolerated the former.) I'm also looking at Intype but it's too early in the development stage to be usable, in my humble opinion.

I am currently using Notepad/VI/Dreamweaver/Crimson/Ultra Edit/Wordpad. Confused? Hehe. I am so used to using different editors, from easy low-scale to high-end, I still have no favourite.