Really cool editor

[Bozmium]

Hi forum,

 

Dont know if this has been posted before but thought id drop it in as ive seen a few people looking for good editors.

 

I use an open source editor called jEdit. www.jedit.org

Its open source, has a thousand add ons and extras and plugins, whatever you want. It can parse and check about everything you would want it to, file compare, ftp, etc.

 

Nice little editor.....did my whole site with it.

 

Cheers! :D

[bglkk]

Hi Brian:

 

Thanks for the pointer. I was getting a parse error and having trouble finding matching brackets, and jedit handled the job quite well. :wub:

[TCwho]

hmm good tip. I currently use TextPad, and was thinking of trying ultraedit, but I will try jEdit first.

[♥bruyndoncx]

I've been using UltraEdit for all my coding these past years (I think since about 1998 or so), and comes with loads of macros and syntax libs at shareware prices.

 

I haven't tried JEdit, so can't testify about it. The few features listed above are also in ultraedit.

Almost always free beats paying, though I can testify I have gotten very fast support from ultraedit in the past.

 

Carine

[211655]

dreamweaver is the best

[cabazon]

Ok, lots of good names here for a text editor I am sure but, how do I use it to change the home page text in Osc? I have used the editor in OsC and it nuked the site :angry: I had to reinstall. :blink: But now I understand that I cant use the file manager in Osc to change text files. So whats the tip or trick on how I would use DreamWeaver to change the home page text of Osc just after a fresh install?

 

 

Thanks for a tip :D

[wheeloftime]

Hi forum,

 

Dont know if this has been posted before but thought id drop it in as ive seen a few people looking for good editors.

 

I use an open source editor called jEdit. www.jedit.org

Its open source, has a thousand add ons and extras and plugins, whatever you want. It can parse and check about everything you would want it to, file compare, ftp, etc.

 

Nice little editor.....did my whole site with it.

 

Cheers!  :D

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Thanks for the tip ! Of what I have seen so far after installing it it is one heck of an editor which just might become my replacement for Textpad and Ultraedit.

Damn, I even used my all time favorite programmers editor Brief for a long time under windows :lol:

[cam_oai]

www.jedit.org = jAVA editor?

[ChrisW123]

Thanks for the tip ! Of what I have seen so far after installing it it is one heck of an editor which just might become my replacement for Textpad and Ultraedit.

Damn, I even used my all time favorite programmers editor Brief for a long time under windows  :lol:

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

LOL you are loyal. I remember when Brief first came out in 198?, I have been using it and it's predicessor Codewright for Windows ever since. :) Borland bought Codewright I guess (I have version 5.0) and I don't think they have done much with it. The editor is basically so old, it's now a kludge of old and new features/UI.

 

So I took bruyndoncx's advice and downloaded UltraEdit. So far I love it. Didn't realize what I was missing. :D Doubt I'll try jEdit however, the features and website didn't seem as professional as UltraEdit's.

[Druide]

try PHP Expert Editor

 

phpexperteditor.com

[jocke4u]

Another is Eclipse with PHPEclipse plugin = GREAT

 

http://www.eclipse.org/

http://www.phpeclipse.de/

[bad_lemming]

For a good freeware, multi-language editor, ConText is teh win!

[Clever&Clueless]

Getting a text editor is like buying clothes, it's down to taste in a world full of choice.

 

osCommerce File Manager is a thing of beauty, with simple graceful lines and not bloated with features. MS2 version has got the odd bug. One day everyone will use it. :P

 

HTML-Kit, I use this all the time. It's free and has lots of features and plug-ins available. Best plugin: 'Slugs' (color scheme helper), but you'll need a lot more. It checks your html for clarity, accessibility, and WC3 standards. Helps make tables, css styles. Got instant preview, code colouring (best with html, you can define other languages, php, perl), edit ftp files (nice), code snippets paste panel, etc etc. Script-checker, spell-checker, code/email/url masking, I could go on... Costs $0.00

 

Other editors:

Dreamweaver is pretty good. WYSIWYG. Code View. Previews. Code snippets. Plugins. Costs ?339 or ?169 upgrade.

Jedit, sounds nice. Java is cool. A bit basic? Costs $0.00

Toad is for Oracle, SQL and Perl, and is a heavy-duty piece of kit. There is a free trial, but otherwise costs $870.

UltraEdit has a kinda fanatical fan-base, so it must be pretty cool. Has it got plugins? Costs $39.95.

 

For other editors that specialise in PHP, there is a nice review list at PHP-Editors, since I have just lost energy to go on.

[♥toyicebear]

Hi, Hi..

 

Here is another good one.. PHP Designer 2005

 

:thumbsup:

[geolev]

Hi, Hi..

 

Here is another good one.. PHP Designer 2005

 

:thumbsup:

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This ones awsome. Thanks. :P

[eTiMaGo]

I use CuteFTP's file editor 99% of the time... It does not understand PHP, though. :P

If I have trouble visualising the code then I'll copy and paste it into EditPlus, that's one darn good program

[osjunkie]

Hi, Hi..

 

Here is another good one.. PHP Designer 2005

 

:thumbsup:

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Wow....could almost turf oversized Dreamweaver. Thanks for the link!

[djgizmo]

I used EditPad Pro.

[Guest]

So many replies, and nothing about the Crimoson editor.

It can handle all common languages, and has alot of great features like built in ftp client. "Open Remote File..." etc.

I?ve been using it since forever.

Freeware, ofcource. :)

 

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

 

Zipper

[avoisin]

So many replies, and nothing about the Crimoson editor.

It can handle all common languages, and has alot of great features like built in ftp client. "Open Remote File..." etc.

I?ve been using it since forever.

Freeware, ofcource.  :)

 

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

 

Zipper

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I'll second that - I swear by Crimson since I read about it here on the forums. I now use it for my "real" coding writing firmware at work. I also like Beyond Compare for doing big sets of diffs on files, but that costs $30, although it's well worth it in my opinion.

[Guest]

I used to use Visual Studio but I switched to Crimson Editor 2 year ago. The latest version has added the View| Split function per my request like Interdev has. It is a great editor for all texts. I particularly like it's find and replace over others. Speaking of find --- agent ransack rocks. BTW ... I found Crimson editor at pricelessware.org -- no ads or other crap, just a good index of freeware.

[Wendy James]

Ok, lots of good names here for a text editor I am sure but, how do I use it to change the home page text in Osc? I have used the editor in OsC and it nuked the site :angry:? I had to reinstall. :blink:? But now I understand that I cant use the file manager in Osc to change text files. So? whats the tip or trick on how I would use DreamWeaver to change the home page text of Osc just after a fresh install?

Thanks for a tip :D

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

 

To change the text you have to open the language files.

For example I use english so I would go to

catalog/includes/langauges/english/index.php and look for define('TEXT_MAIN', and change everything between the next ' and the last ' in the paragraph. You can do that in any editer, including notepad.

 

Since everyone is saying what they use, I use Dreamweaver. Always have, always will... Used it for years now and I am too old to learn something new. Opening up a different editer to me now, is like going to a different planet but there are a million and one great ones, including free ones.

[systweak_amitp]

Komodo 3.1 is good editor

[Farrukh]

PHP Designer 2005 is really good. I have been using Ultraedit 10 for the past two years and I think that i'll use PHP Designer 2005 from now on.

[sawfish62]

PHP designer 2005 is superb!