RE: [PHP] Looking for a real good editor with some specific featrues ...
| From: | Dan Anderson | Date: | Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:12:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Looking for a real good editor with some specific featrues ... | ||
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60% of what makes an editor good is familiarity. Take emacs for
instance (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html). Running PHP
Mode (http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/) I fly through code.
But I've also spent quite a lot of time memorizing the zillion or so
commands to do things automatically.
There are people who love ViM (http://www.vim.org/). I personally hate
it. But I've never spent the time learning it that I have with Emacs.
I honestly can't tell you that if I spent as much time using ViM as I do
Emacs I wouldn't fly through code.
(By the way, if you spend any time on a Unix or Unix like environment I
suggest you learn how to use both Vi and Emacs at least for basic
stuff.)
Then again, you may want to jump to something else. Google for more
options. I believe Zend (the makers of PHP) have a PHP Studio program.
So google around, try things out, and see what you like. And don't let
anybody tell you one editor is superior to another. 60% of what makes
an editor good is familiarity. And the other 40% is personal
preference. (I know some people who can't hit a couple dozen keys in
combination to do something -- one of the things Emacs is notorious
for. Vi(M) makes more sense for those people).
-Dan