Re: Development Tools

From: Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:16:35 +0000
Subject: Re: Development Tools
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I agree about WYSIWYG. I use UltraDev a lot, but don't use the WYSIWYG very much again more. UltraDev is great at managing your site and syntax highlighting. I love the update feature (change a file/image name and it updates all pages that use them to the new name) Also about plain programming editors, I like PFE too. Didn't know it was unsupported now(see Jay Blanchard comment above) -- _________________________________________ Mark McCulligh, Application Developer / Analyst Sykes Canada Corporation www.SykesCanada.com (888)225-6824 ex. 3262 mmcculli@SykesCanada.com "Martin Clifford" <MLC1@nrc.gov> wrote in message news:sd2c2e4e.016@nrcgwia.nrc.gov... Exactly. Homesite is, in essence, Dreamweaver MX without the WYSIWYG. Syntax highlighting and code completion make it a very viable editor. I can't stand that WYSIWYG crap. I'm plenty good at messing up my own code without assistance, thank you very much! :o) Martin >>> "Bret L Conard" <bretlc@donet.com> 07/10/02 12:24PM >>> Hence the happy medium of Homesite..... acts as a basic text editor but allows some support for coding when needed/wanted..... IMHP Bret ----- 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 12:21 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 > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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