Posted by Branjawn on September 16, 2009 at 2:54pm
I need to find a new text editor. I have used UltraEdit for a while now and it works well on my desktop, but I cannot get it to work on my laptop (license issues). Oh yeah, and I pay for it!
So what are some good FREE text editors (for Windows, not Mac) just for doing basic functions involved in building a site using Drupal.
Key functions:
FTP files
Color coded text
CSS editing
multiple tabs/files open at once
compare files
and once again , FREE!
Comments
Eclipse
Eclipse is what I use, which is developer-oriented. You can download it packaged with a PHP plugin (PDT or PHPEclipse).
I've never tried to use it with FTP, so you may need to do something special to get that to work (downloading a plugin, mounting the FTP folder, etc.). However, a better plan for the long term would be to set up and use SVN, and get your files to the server via update.
Ken Winters
+1 for eclipse. I've been
+1 for eclipse. I've been using VIM for years, installed Eclispe this morning, don't forsee going back.
PSPad
Back in the day I used PSPad and liked it a lot. More features than SciTE (which is a decent notepad.exe replacement) and less bloat than a full IDE. It has:
You'll have to evaluate it for it's CSS support and I'm not sure diff is built in, but I'd guess it is.
It's FREE.
http://www.pspad.com/en/
Also I have seen Notepad++ mentioned a lot but haven't used it myself.
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
vim and it's gui variants
I love vim and I can (and have) configure and extend it to be the same on Mac, Windows or Linux. Yes, there's a steep learning curve but with a nice treat at the end of the learning. Lots of html extensions, tabs, syntax coloring, ftp editing, ssh editing; loads lightening fast.
Eclipse for Noobs
So, I installed Eclipse, spent about an hour with it, and cannot figure anything out.
I am not a programmer, I do not have a computer science degree! I need something intuitive that comes ready to go.
I guess I'll check out psppad and notepad++
Thanks for your attempt to help guys.
JEdit
JEdit http://www.jedit.org/ may be more to your liking then?