Comments on: Text Editors for Coders : Deathmatch Review http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/?source=rss A bit of my personal life, mainly focused on my kids. A bit of code, mainly focused on Wordpress and PHP. Overall, bits of nothing in particular. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:17:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: dr3d http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-83754 dr3d Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:13:59 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-83754 Notepad++ fails HEREDOC if encoding is MAC .. just an FYI cause it had me pulling the last of my hair out.... Notepad++ fails HEREDOC if encoding is MAC .. just an FYI cause it had me pulling the last of my hair out….

]]> By: razorwire http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-73065 razorwire Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:00:42 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-73065 Textmate can do HEREDOC code styling as long as you update the PHP bundle to the latest one. See: http://macromates.com/ To update the PHP bundle after installing textmate change "Python" to "PHP" in the terminal commands on the following page: http://blog.macromates.com/2006/updating-a-bundle/ Textmate can do HEREDOC code styling as long as you update the PHP bundle to the latest one. See:
http://macromates.com/

To update the PHP bundle after installing textmate change “Python” to “PHP” in the terminal commands on the following page:
http://blog.macromates.com/2006/updating-a-bundle/

]]> By: razorwire http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-73039 razorwire Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:57:14 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-73039 A different HEREDOC identifier SHOULD change the code styling within the HEREDOC part appropriately and NOT just assume every HEREDOC is a GENERIC quoted string. In the example below I want it to parse the heredoc part as JAVASCRIPT with matching JAVASCRIPT code styling! ie) $language = <<<JAVASCRIPT This is invalid javascript. The <<<JAVASCRIPT code styling here SHOULD be screwy (NOT necessarily a solid color) <<< >>> /* abcdef JAVASCRIPT; ie) $language = <<<JAVASCRIPT /* This <<<JAVASCRIPT SHOULD have JAVASCRIPT code styling. It SHOULD NOT all be the same color! */ var stlyled; styled = true; JAVASCRIPT; Is there a text editor that can do this? A different HEREDOC identifier SHOULD change the code styling within the HEREDOC part appropriately and NOT just assume every HEREDOC is a GENERIC quoted string. In the example below I want it to parse the heredoc part as JAVASCRIPT with matching JAVASCRIPT code styling!

ie)
$language = <<<JAVASCRIPT
This is invalid javascript.
The <<<JAVASCRIPT code styling here SHOULD be screwy (NOT necessarily a solid color)
<<<
>>>
/*
abcdef
JAVASCRIPT;

ie)
$language = <<<JAVASCRIPT
/* This <<<JAVASCRIPT SHOULD have JAVASCRIPT code styling.
It SHOULD NOT all be the same color! */
var stlyled;
styled = true;
JAVASCRIPT;

Is there a text editor that can do this?

]]> By: Firebat http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-59053 Firebat Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:59:21 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-59053 Great list, personally I have been using phpDesigner in windows and I find it quite nice especially since it highlights syntax errors such as a missing ";". Might as well test it with your tricky code when I get home. Using linux however, I really love Gedit (Gnome's default editor) just tested your code there and it has no syntax highlight flaws, its only missing the collapse option. What I really like about it though is the ability to use it with gnome's ftp connections and open/save as if remote files were local. Regards Great list, personally I have been using phpDesigner in windows and I find it quite nice especially since it highlights syntax errors such as a missing “;”.

Might as well test it with your tricky code when I get home. Using linux however, I really love Gedit (Gnome’s default editor) just tested your code there and it has no syntax highlight flaws, its only missing the collapse option. What I really like about it though is the ability to use it with gnome’s ftp connections and open/save as if remote files were local.

Regards

]]> By: adrian liem http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-54742 adrian liem Wed, 28 May 2008 19:56:26 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-54742 and i tried to fix that -- i hope https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4991463 and i tried to fix that — i hope
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4991463

]]> By: adrian http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-54621 adrian Tue, 27 May 2008 18:15:03 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-54621 Notepad++ code snippet's hotkey (quicktext plugin) is Ctrl Enter -- which is a great downside for me. i think people has cried out for the Tab hotkey for ages now :) Notepad++ code snippet’s hotkey (quicktext plugin) is Ctrl Enter — which is a great downside for me. i think people has cried out for the Tab hotkey for ages now :)

]]> By: Mat http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-52417 Mat Tue, 06 May 2008 08:59:40 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-52417 I just wonder, which of the editors supports regex syntax that oneself can make? I just wonder, which of the editors supports regex syntax that oneself can make?

]]> By: Carbonize http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-48497 Carbonize Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:03:46 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-48497 Whilst Notepad++ has great syntax support this is due to the component used and the the person who makes the program. But as someone else has commented it takes more than good syntax highlighting to make a good text editor. I have used both PSPad and Notepad++ and always return to PSPad. My main reasons for this is that PSPad has a better list of PHP functions and can complete them as either just the function and parenthesis or as the complete function and attribute descriptions as taken from php.net. And I just tested your test code on PSPad and switched it to PHP highlighting and not HTML multihighlighter and it passes line 3 fine but fails on the heredoc. Also I find PSPad easier to use and it's configuration makes more sense. Just to add that Notepad++ does now have FTP support. Whilst Notepad++ has great syntax support this is due to the component used and the the person who makes the program. But as someone else has commented it takes more than good syntax highlighting to make a good text editor. I have used both PSPad and Notepad++ and always return to PSPad. My main reasons for this is that PSPad has a better list of PHP functions and can complete them as either just the function and parenthesis or as the complete function and attribute descriptions as taken from php.net. And I just tested your test code on PSPad and switched it to PHP highlighting and not HTML multihighlighter and it passes line 3 fine but fails on the heredoc. Also I find PSPad easier to use and it’s configuration makes more sense.

Just to add that Notepad++ does now have FTP support.

]]> By: David http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-46278 David Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:49:09 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-46278 The version of EditPad Pro that I'm using (6.3.2) does not presume that line 3 is a closing tag, and the editor will autofold comments and For loops if you set one of its configuration options to generate folds based on text indentation (not perfect, I realize, but better than nothing). The version of EditPad Pro that I’m using (6.3.2) does not presume that line 3 is a closing tag, and the editor will autofold comments and For loops if you set one of its configuration options to generate folds based on text indentation (not perfect, I realize, but better than nothing).

]]> By: Leeoniya http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-45326 Leeoniya Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:16:44 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/#comment-45326 Ozh, i came to the same conclusions that you did. but i have to have live tag matching. try dev-PHP or anything else that uses the SynWeb component: http://flatdev.ovh.org/downloads.php?project=2 they all pass your php syntax test, are as good if not better than all scintilla-based editors like notepad++, notepad2, programmer's notepad2, sciTE etc. plus you get live HTML tag matching. depending on the implementation tho, you may or may not get tag and attribute code hints (for css and html), tag auto completion, and color picker and file path browse dialogs which are the only other things i would like to see to greatly improve usability. php designer is not free, but has a ton more stuff that makes it the best php editor i think w/live syntax checking, xdebug, ftp, SVN etc. Leon Ozh, i came to the same conclusions that you did. but i have to have live tag matching.

try dev-PHP or anything else that uses the SynWeb component: http://flatdev.ovh.org/downloads.php?project=2

they all pass your php syntax test, are as good if not better than all scintilla-based editors like notepad++, notepad2, programmer’s notepad2, sciTE etc. plus you get live HTML tag matching.

depending on the implementation tho, you may or may not get tag and attribute code hints (for css and html), tag auto completion, and color picker and file path browse dialogs which are the only other things i would like to see to greatly improve usability. php designer is not free, but has a ton more stuff that makes it the best php editor i think w/live syntax checking, xdebug, ftp, SVN etc.

Leon

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