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Re: best editor

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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

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best editor bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-13 04:09 -0700
  Re: best editor Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-09-13 07:24 -0400
  Re: best editor Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2011-09-13 13:34 +0200
  Re: best editor Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-09-13 12:54 +0100
  Re: best editor "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-09-13 10:18 -0500
    Re: best editor "A" <a@a.a> - 2011-09-13 19:42 +0200
      Re: best editor "A" <a@a.a> - 2011-09-13 19:47 +0200
        Re: best editor Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2011-09-13 20:44 -0700
          Re: best editor Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-09-14 13:57 +0200
            Re: best editor "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2011-09-14 14:29 +0200
  Re: best editor Federico Mendez <mendezfederico87@gmail.com> - 2011-09-14 16:58 -0700
    Re: best editor Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2011-09-15 10:24 +0200
  Re: best editor Denis McMahon <denis.m.f.mcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-09-15 20:01 +0000
    Re: best editor Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> - 2011-09-16 12:38 -0500
      Re: best editor "Twayne" <twayne@twaynesdomain.com> - 2011-09-16 20:00 -0400
  Re: best editor hasitha <hpathiraja@gmail.com> - 2011-09-16 16:34 -0700
  Re: best editor "bgulian@gmail.com" <bgulian@gmail.com> - 2011-09-17 06:38 -0700
    Re: best editor sajin <tmsajin@gmail.com> - 2011-09-22 21:26 -0700
  Re: best editor Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-27 11:33 -0400
  Re: best editor tamouse <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> - 2011-09-28 11:14 -0700
    Re: best editor Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-09-28 20:47 +0100

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