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Hi, |
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On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:33 -0800, Michael Shaw wrote: |
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> What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for |
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> something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mike |
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I used the php-mode for emacs when I co-wrote the Zend Certification |
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Study Guide. Unlike vim, emacs actually parses and understands the code |
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it's editing; this makes the syntax highlighting and indentation support |
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much more flexible and accurate. I'd go as far as saying that the |
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auto-indentation support for php-mode for emacs is by far the best I've |
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worked with to date. |
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Today, I use the phpEclipse plugin for Eclipse 3.0. I'm very happy with |
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this. Performance is very good, the object browser works better than |
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php-mode for Emacs did, and it's very useful indeed to be able to search |
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all the files of a project from within the editor. There's also the |
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advantage of being able to use other Eclipse plugins, such as support |
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for subversion. phpEclipse is my main environment, which I use a good |
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8-10 hours in a working day. |
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I tried Zend Studio about 18 months ago, but didn't like it. I found |
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the performance was too slow (hate using software that can't keep up |
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with my typing!), auto-indenting was inflexible (and I couldn't convince |
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Zeev why that mattered :(, there was no subversion support, and no |
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anti-aliased font support (tiring on the eyes when your main machine is |
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a laptop). I haven't tried Zend Studio 4, and have no idea whether it |
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has improved in any of these areas or not. |
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Can't comment on a good environment for perl. Last time I used perl |
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seriously was in '96. Things have changed a lot since then. |
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Hope that helps, |
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Stu |
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