i need a great text editor

[eklass]

hey all, i'm looking for a good text editor with syntax highlighting and the ability to collapse structures (such as multi-line comments, function and class definitions, etc.) if you've used Visual Studio .NET you should know what i'm talking about. anyway, it's for php. i found Programmers Notepad, but it lacks total development (not to mention having to manually specify to highlight the .php file with c/c++ syntax)

does such a beast exist? i really like syn, but collapsing structures would be awesome. oh yeah, and free would be nice too

thanks

 

[wfbberzerker]

i know that JCreator has these features, its designed for java, but im pretty sure you could use it with php. its at http://www.jcreator.com/

 

[AFB]

JCreator + PHP == Bad

 

[randumb]

Scite, but it's not under much development

 

Eclipse + phpeclipse.

It's what I am using for a big project and so far it's worked well. Just make sure you get the latest build from the files page.

 

phpeclipse screenie

 

[eklass]

php eclipse seems to do everything i need, but it was a suprisingly hefty downlaod at 25MB (for eclipse core). anyway, i'll have to play with it more and make it mine, but i guess syn will displace it as my thumbdrive text editor :-\

 

[n0cmonkey]

Not sure about the second thing (collapsing stuff), but syntax highlighting is something vim can do pretty well.

 

[Bloodstein]

Crimson editor is my fav text editor. It has no code collapsing but it does have syntax highlighting.

 

[eklass]

syntax highlighting is a snap, and editors are a dime-a-dozen. the tough thing (or at least not oft done) seems to be collapsing/folding code. it's really helpful to do something like collapse all your comments (especially when you do javadoc/phpdoc-type comments where there's at least 3 lines per variable/function). it just makes traversing a large chunk of code more manageable

 

[Armitage]

Quanta has all that. Linux only though.