snip/ but often find myself using an editor on the code created by these. So to answer the question above ... nothing beats a good editor. Jay /snip
Hence the happy medium of Homesite..... acts as a basic text editor but allows some support for coding when needed/wanted..... IMHP Bret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Blanchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Uwe Birkenhain'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:21 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Development Tools > [snip] > What makes development tools better than a good editor? (serious question) > [/snip] > > Over the course of time (I have been writing code for 25 years, many > languages, some compiled, some not) I have found that the most useful tool > in the arsenal is a good editor with no more features than line numbering. > When I find myself in times of code trouble (props to John Lennon) I will > almost always turn to an editor first. I have used many, and for my money > where web application development is concerned, Programmers File Editor (no > longer supported) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/ for Windows, and > vi or pico on *nix are the editors of choice. I do use PHPedit from time to > time because, while it is buggy, it does do syntax highlighting and matches > brackets and other curly thingies well, which is especially helpful when > viewing large scripts with lots of code. > > I have and continue to use some IDE's for certain projects (Visual C++, > UltraDev for ASP code) but often find myself using an editor on the code > created by these. > > So to answer the question above ... nothing beats a good editor. > > Jay > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
