Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5

2009-10-29 Thread John Black
James McLean wrote: I myself and I'm sure many others will agree that sticking to 'around' 80 chars is best-practice, it's handy for those times when you need to fix code in an emergency in an 80 col terminal, among other reasons. Personally the 80 col marker (I set it to 78 cols actually) is

Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5

2009-10-29 Thread John Black
Skip Evans wrote: Now, if I can just get rid of that red line at the 80 column mark. I haven't bothered with 80 columns since I wrote assembly on a terminal connected to a PDP-11 in college. Sorry forgot to include this. Tools=Options=Formatting Set Right Margin to 200 (200 is the largest

Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5

2009-10-29 Thread James McLean
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:13 PM, John Black s...@network-technologies.org wrote: James McLean wrote: I myself and I'm sure many others will agree that sticking to 'around' 80 chars is best-practice, it's handy for those times when you need to fix code in an emergency in an 80 col terminal,

RE: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5

2009-10-28 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Skip Evans I just downloaded the Netbeans 6.5 IDE to use as a code editor, installed the PHP plugin for syntax highlighting and it didn't look so good, so I find on the forum a guy who has made a collection of files, starting in a directory called config, that will apparently

Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5

2009-10-28 Thread Skip Evans
Bob McConnell wrote: Three questions. 1. Why did you install an obsolete version? 6.7.1 is current and 6.8 is now in beta. Because that what Ubuntu installs with apt-get install netbeans and I like to stick with Ubuntu tested stuff. 2. You just asked this question on the NetBeans

Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5

2009-10-28 Thread Brady Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Any Netbeaners out there know how to install syntax highlighting stuff? 1 - Exit NetBeans 2 - Unzip the file in your ~/.netbeans/ folder. 3 - Start NetBeans 4 - Select the new color profile from Tools - Options - Fonts and

Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5

2009-10-28 Thread Greg Maruszeczka
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:29:49 -0500 Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: Three questions. 1. Why did you install an obsolete version? 6.7.1 is current and 6.8 is now in beta. Because that what Ubuntu installs with apt-get install netbeans and I like to

Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5

2009-10-28 Thread Skip Evans
Greg Maruszeczka wrote: Download NB 6.7.1 (or even better, 6.8 Beta which looks pretty good to me), run the install script and you're done. It's built-in updater will handle the rest. Then if you're still feeling antsy about the choice of syntax colors you can choose any of five different theme

Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5

2009-10-28 Thread James McLean
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Now, if I can just get rid of that red line at the 80 column mark. I haven't bothered with 80 columns since I wrote assembly on a terminal connected to a PDP-11 in college. I myself and I'm sure many others will agree