Re: graphical integrated development environment recommendations?

On Fri, 01 May 2009 12:57:25 -0400 Al <news@ridersite.org> wrote: > > > Michael A. Peters wrote: > > Adam Williams wrote: > >> With the wide range of users on the list, I'm sure there are > >> plenty of opinions on what are good graphical IDE's and which ones > >> to avoid. I'd like to get away from using notepad.exe to code with > >> due to its limitations. Something that supports syntax/code > >> highlighting and has browser previews would be nice features. I'm > >> looking at Aptana (www.aptana.com) but it seems like it is more > >> complicated to use then it should be. Either Linux or Windows IDE > >> (i run both OSes) recommendations would be fine. > >> > >> > > > > Not an ide - I use bluefish, which is a gui text editor with syntax > > highlighting. It's an X11/gtk2+ application, packaged for most > > Linux distribution (ie yum install bluefish on Fedora or RHEL) > > > > For previewing, I just run a web server on my development box. > > > > Only hitch with bluefish - the syntax highlighting sometimes gets > > confused and it drops the highlighting. Press F5 and it reloads. > > > > I believe there is a windows port of bluefish but if I was on > > windows, I'd probably just use Homesite (not free). > > Look at phpEdit. It has everything you are looking for and is rock > solid. I love the folding and regions features. > Isn't phpedit windows-only? <shudder> Eclipse + PDT is my recommendation FWIW... GM