Coding apps
Hey all,
Just wanted to get a general concensus on what most of us use to code. I am not a big fan of dreamweaver and much prefer to build sites in plain text editors. I occasionally use Dreamweaver in code view, but since my Uni days Ive always used gvim to code.
What do you prefer to use to code?
Thanks,
Serpico
serpico
teammatt3 posted this at 15:46 — 7th September 2008.
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I love Dreamweaver. No other editor makes writing HTML quicker (IMO). DW's little feature that automatically closes your HTML tag when you type < / is the best thing ever! Why hasn't any other implemented that? I also love the site manager because I don't have a local testing server, I have to upload everything to the server when I want to try it, and DW does it automatically when I save the file. No other editor I've used does that.
Unfortunately, for programming Dreamweaver comes out a little short. If Visual Studio supported PHP, I'd be all over VS. The intellisense feature makes programming so much easier. It doesn't just tell you what arguments are available for functions, it tells you about class members and methods (even overloaded methods) for user defined classes. It's awesome, but I only use it for C#.
I've probably tried 6 different editors, and they all have their strengths. But what Dreamweaver and VS do fit me perfectly. I think it's really up to the person using the editor. Try all them out, and see which you like the best.
Megan posted this at 13:26 — 13th May 2009.
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Quanta Plus does. That was a requirement for me. I'm sure there are others.
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greg posted this at 14:24 — 13th May 2009.
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Bluefish does too.
When you type
<tag>, as soon as you type the>it automatically puts</tag>(in full) after it.Was annoying at first due to the way I work, but after getting used to it I admit it's really useful.
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 18:11 — 7th September 2008.
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I use Bluefish with an SSHFS connection to my server. It allows me to edit the files live off the server as if they were local. It doesn't have any of the fancy intellisense or any HTML WYSIWYG tools. It's still sufficient for my web building needs though.
Michael James Swan posted this at 19:34 — 7th September 2008.
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I have various editors that i have access to.
I use Microsoft Expression Web, Microsoft Frontpage, Adobe DreamWeaver CS3, and NVU.
I then use Xaamp to act as a server so i can test the sites as if they were in a live enviroment.
decibel.places posted this at 22:12 — 7th September 2008.
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I use EditPlus3 - a text editor on steroids, with integrated browser preview
The color coding for html, php, javascript is handy
I think the CoffeeCup editor is a pretty good wysiwyg
I work with designers who use Dreamweaver - I get these crazy nested tables with meaningless stylesheets (what does style77 mean?)
I assume you can configure it to do otherwise, but I don't need it.
Of course, if you build in Drupal you can use a rich text editor like FCKeditor
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BTW
should be consensus
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