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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Michael Vilain wrote:

> In article <j4o4vn$m7k$1@gregory.bnet.hr>, "A" <a@a.a> wrote:
>> by the way here are the features i look first in text/code editor:
>> 
>> - syntax highlighting - pretty much standard with any editor these days
>> - good macro recording system - easy to record, organize and playback
>> - column editing mode (and not just any column mode - it should be as
>> good as in ultraedit).
>> 
>> so far i haven't found any other editor that implements all of these as
>> good as UE and i did try a lot of them including free and commercial
>> ones.
> 
> Haven't come across anything free that does all this on MacOS, unless
> TextWrangler does column editing.  It's big brother, BBEdit does all you
> mention but it was pricey for a text editor at $129.  I was shocked to
> find it's come down to $49.  Maybe they fired the marketing guy or Rich,
> the author finally died.

PHP Development Tools (PDT) installed on top of Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo) does 
all of that except macro recording.  You can define code templates, though, 
if additions to the built-in ones are necessary (which you can modify).
Because it is Java-based, Eclipse is virtually platform-independent, and it 
is for free.  Add the Aptana plugin and you have a good PHP (etc.) IDE at no 
cost.

<http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/TUTORIALS>


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