Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Meyer Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: best editor Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:33:53 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4E81ECE1.8090103@yahoo.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cXfoUdE2tOmL54C/tFXK/Q"; logging-data="23733"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX191/1tK/u9ifPjMZIpdKjVY" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:vt7Ac9Idt1DP5ipZNeBoV9I8UIg= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.php:3217 On 9/13/2011 7:09 AM, bob wrote: > What is the best editor to use for php code on Mac? Vim (and gvim) and Emacs are two editors that emerged out of the UNIX world decades ago. Both are free, portable to many different operating systems (UNIX/Linux, Mac, Windows, and many others too), extensible, and supported by a large open source programming community. Both are designed as programmer's editors but are adaptable for many other uses as well. Both are based on command sets that have been adopted by other implementers so that there are actually alternate versions available of both. Both are well documented and have good support in the newsgroups. Both of these editors are feature rich but complex. They require some investment in learning time to make good use of them. You may not want to get into that. However, if you use a text editor all day long for many different tasks on several different computers and OSes, with plain text and different computer languages, as I do, you might find one of them to be a very versatile tool. Both also have interesting add ons. One of my favorites is the Emacs "org mode" which is a kind of outliner on steroids with some very nice features. Being free is nice too, not just for the initial acquisition, but also for all the updates you might need down the road as the editors evolve and for when the version you have no longer works on the next computer you buy. Alan