Re: Utilities?

a good vim tutorial http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/009/009.part1.html vim (I did not say vi!!!) is vi improved - has syntax highlighting for php3 plus a whole lot more, regular expressions etc... It is all the editor that you will ever need, and it is available everywhere > Heh... that's easier said than done :) Damn straight :) I tried learning vi a while back > when i had linux on a box at home, and I got quite frustrated with the > naturally counter-intuitive interface. > I think for now I will stick to homesite, which colorcodes things for me :) > Right now youre probably grumbling something about me being a stupid newbie > and not knowing whats best for me... well, I'm sorry. I'll save vi for a > later date when I will arm myself with a fat reference book, and hours of > free time. Nope, not at all. I tried tons of editors before I settled on vim (_not_ vi) and I just got sick of learning new editors. I want to code, not to be an edtior master. I loved homesite at one point, but I wanted one editor that I could use anywhere, anytime, and and editor, not an IDE. However, keep in mind that my experiences led me to this, and yours could lead you elsewhere. I must admit - I love color coding - thats how I catch my unescaped strings and do some basic debugging and all that. > Thanks for your help, I do see your point about not missing the details, so > I will stop my pursuit of a "slick editor." But for now color coded text > and a friendly windows interface is what im sticking with... > Thanks a lot for your help, > Ed > > ""Kevin Beckford"" <kbeckford@bigorbit.com> wrote in message > news:038001bfe6c1$f3e10430$4201a8c0@mercurypdc... > > > > > > > Allright, I am admitedly a newbie, and I make stupid mistakes because im > > > having a hard time writing the code as it is. (stupid mistakes like > leaving > > > off semicolons or not escaping out quotes) > > > so my question is: is there some editor for windows that would catch > such > > > stupid mistakes? > > > > Sure - Use vim. The mistakes that you are making are very important later > on - > > a fancy editor will just allow you not to concentrate on the details, > which is > > a thing that will always haunt you. Vim is brutal to learn, but using it > will > > teach you to pay attention to little details. Best to make those type of > > mistakes now, formulate a strategy to ensure that you do not make them > > (indenting style, variable naming style, etc) as opposed to having some > slick > > editor hide that from you... > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >