On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Robert De Mars wrote: > Forgive me if this is off topic, but I was curious about php editors. > I have just recently started coding PHP, and I have not found an editor > I like yet. I started simply using VIM (elvis), and have played with > KDE's Quanta (but this seems to crash often for me). I was curious what > other php programmers like to use. This is an interesting issue. I like to use Emacs, and when I get into coding something like RoR or C or HTML, I'll make sure I have the proper Emacs mode for that language and any other neat add-ons that might be out there. This has worked well enough for me. Here's info on PHP on emacs: http://www.google.com/search?q=emacs+php But I have a colleague who is a professional coder and his approach is to go to an entirely different package for different kinds of files. He'll use Textmate (Mac only) for RoR and he'll use NetBeans for Java, etc. I want to use Linux, and I don't have a Mac, but he will keep the code on a Linux machine and edit it remotely using subversion to checkout some code, edit it locally and commit changes back to the remote subversion Db. That's an interesting approach, and I guess it works well as long as both machines and the network are all up. When I told him that I thought it might be better just to use Emacs, which is super portable and has modes for everything, he thought maybe I was right. But then again, I don't do all that much coding myself (not compared to pros) so it doesn't matter that much what I do, but I do hire people and I usually encourage them to use emacs with appropriate modes. Mike