Coders: Editor of Choice

The topic had to come up sooner or later

Just wondering what editors you guys use to code.

If I were on a Mac, I'd be using TextMate, but I'm not... So I've got a bunch of editors installed.

For complete PHP projects, I'm not very happy with any IDE's available. I've tried Zend Studio, PHPEclipse and currently using phpEd. They aren't as useful as something like Visual Studio is for C#. Are there any others out there?

For smaller things, I like to use EditPlus because it loads up in an isntant If I need more syntax highlighting, then Notepad++ is a good choice. I'd use it more often, but the CTRL+BACKSAPCE functionality drives me absolutely nuts (it's "greedy". Ex, instead of taking away indents or something, it also takes away newlines). Also, jEdit is a really good editor. I just hate the loading time (it's not that bad, but I like my "simple" editors to open up in a snap. I only accept loading from IDE's ).

Damn, I'm picky

I've started using UltraEdit recently. Don't have an opinion on it yet, but it's not bad.

I am using Editplus for a long time and i love all the features.

I like UltraEdit. It has just enough to make it useful, but not bloated. I use notepad when I'm doing something really simple.

I'm using the internal editor in FAR file manager (with Colorer plugin for syntax highlighting)

Originally Posted by Lizard King

I am using Editplus for a long time and i love all the features.

Editplus2 here.. I dig the colours.

Gonna check out Notepad++ now tho.

UltraEdit and HomeSite since many years.

Editplus here too. I like the fact that it can use custom templates. I made some mods to some templates for my normal coding habbits

I use both vi and Bluefish, depends on the amount of work I need to do. For all you Windows users, these are Linux apps...

I've tried to use vi before. But I'm more productive without all those commands I guess if you know them like the back of your hand it's okay, but I just couldn't get used to it. Now the only time I ever use vi is when I'm in the console.

normally use pspad for light editing (its free) and for major codes i develop always use webuilder pro. very nice debuging environment also

For simple stuff I just use Notepad, for bigger projects I had been using TextPad, I'll give Notepad++ a shot

notepad 2 for me

never used notepad ++

For small text type files (like robots.txt, .htaccess and others), I use NoteTab Pro and I spent a lot of time and tried a lot of programs until I found WeBuilder 2005 (now version 2006). I would have a tough time without both of those.