Reading Programming

Dec 23, 2005 00:04 # 41152

charlie *** posts about...

Web Dev Intelligent Editors

?% | 1

I've been using Visual Web Developer 2005 since it was in Beta. For the moment, this version is out for free. Like most development editors, it makes all kinds of recommendations and autocompletes keywords for you.

This has been really useful for me, because I can never remember which html tags do what or go where. For example, is "bold" an option under "font-weight" or "font-decoration"? But I feel like a tool for using a Microsoft product.

Just today I saw Bluefish, which is of course free, and Style Master which is not free. And even JEdit can finish tags, etc (BTW, if you're looking for a good multi-purpose editor. I have yet to find a language JEdit doesn't know the syntax for).

Does anyone have a choice editor (preferably free) for web development besides this one?

Please contiune to vote AND post.

Dec 23, 2005 19:27 # 41165

majic *** replies...

Re: Web Dev Intelligent Editors

There is Quanta which is a really nice web editor. I don't know if it does any magical autocompletion.

I've been wanting to switch to RadRails but it's just not working very well yet. At the moment I'm not using an editor that does magical things for me, I'm using Nedit and Gedit. I wish I were but the free ones are so disappointing.

Bluefish looks really nice but again no magical autocompletion (ala Textmate) and Jedit is about the best I've seen but still it doesn't do very cool autocompletion either.

I'm open to suggestions as long as they are not vim or emacs


Favorites (edit)

Small text Large text

Netalive Amp (Skin for Winamp)