Re: Development Tools

Can't agree more, it's fine having Ultradev and the rest to get you started but the best end results come from understanding and writing code that is not bloated. For a great text editor that has all the features identified in PHPEdit but none of the bugs try JEdit www.jedit.org Zac ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> To: "'Uwe Birkenhain'" <uwe.birkenhain@berlin.de>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 5:21 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Development Tools > [snip] > What makes development tools better than a good editor? (serious question) > [/snip] > > Over the course of time (I have been writing code for 25 years, many > languages, some compiled, some not) I have found that the most useful tool > in the arsenal is a good editor with no more features than line numbering. > When I find myself in times of code trouble (props to John Lennon) I will > almost always turn to an editor first. I have used many, and for my money > where web application development is concerned, Programmers File Editor (no > longer supported) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/ for > Windows, and > vi or pico on *nix are the editors of choice. I do use PHPedit from time to > time because, while it is buggy, it does do syntax highlighting and matches > brackets and other curly thingies well, which is especially helpful when > viewing large scripts with lots of code. > > I have and continue to use some IDE's for certain projects (Visual C++, > UltraDev for ASP code) but often find myself using an editor on the code > created by these. > > So to answer the question above ... nothing beats a good editor. > > Jay > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >