I'm looking for a decent free web editor, I have to do some javascript and html stuff for a project. 95% of this i will be coding by hand. What do you all suggest?

9/14/2008 8:59:04 PM

Notepad, you pussy

9/14/2008 9:01:09 PM

dreamweaver?

9/14/2008 9:02:06 PM

htmlkit?

http://www.chami.com/HTML-Kit/

9/14/2008 9:09:43 PM

anything with syntax highlighting will do

9/14/2008 9:30:13 PM

PSPad has always been one of my favorites.

9/14/2008 10:35:13 PM

vim

9/14/2008 10:50:32 PM

coda - just keep telling them your testing it

9/14/2008 11:35:17 PM

man, there are so many. i've used these but i always fall back to vim for the most part.

notepad++
notepad2
crimson editor

9/15/2008 12:17:18 AM

HTML-kit

awsome, built in ftp, preview, etc

9/15/2008 12:42:38 AM

oh i forgot to read 'free'.

9/15/2008 2:36:27 AM

aptana

9/15/2008 7:03:59 AM

notepad

9/15/2008 8:54:26 AM

Quote :

"oh i forgot to read 'free'."

vim

9/15/2008 9:41:34 AM

vs express?

9/15/2008 11:36:05 AM

ok, dreamweaver's gotten on my last nerve and is way too bloated for how i use it anyway so i'm looking for a new editor

what i need in it:
* lightweight
* tabbed pages w/ scroll wheel support
* syntax highlighting for html, php, and JS (if it could match dreamweaver exactly in this that'd be great)
* php and js function autocompletion and tooltips
* css and html attribute autocompletion and tooltips
* html tag closing
* bracket linking (if i'm on the opening bracket it shows me where it closes at)
* find next/prev, replace in file/in selection/in folder, supports regex searches, supports highlight-all
* current line highlighting
* autocorrection of tags by doctype
* matching tag highlighting

what i'd like in it but don't need:
* jquery autocompletion support and tooltips
* preview pane that account for the php and actually displays properly
* plugin support?

i'm using notepad++ and it's not bad but it doesn't seem to support everything i want

[Edited on December 12, 2008 at 9:57 AM. Reason : more]

12/12/2008 9:51:05 AM

I came in here to quote

Quote :

"notepad"

12/12/2008 10:34:16 AM

Quote :

"vim"

12/12/2008 11:36:55 AM

get a mac and use http://www.panic.com/coda/

12/12/2008 11:46:05 AM

i second/third/whatever notepad++

12/12/2008 11:50:46 AM

Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Free and pretty damn good.

BigMan157: If you get VS Pro, you can have everything (I think) you mentioned. There's a plugin out there that uses the C++ code coloring for PHP, so it unfortunately won't work on the free VWD08 product.

12/12/2008 5:21:57 PM

Quote :

"I came in here to quote "notepad""

[Edited on December 12, 2008 at 6:17 PM. Reason : "]

12/12/2008 6:17:33 PM

i tried notepad++, vim, and pspad and none of them did better at what i wanted than dreamweaver

shame

12/18/2008 1:28:58 PM

notepad is a stupid suggestion. If you do any kind of real coding then you can greatly appreciate color coding.

auto complete closing tags is also nice to have.


If you're on a Mac...then use Coda (but its not free). I use Coda but I use eclipse more at work because of Java.

[Edited on December 18, 2008 at 1:40 PM. Reason : .]

12/18/2008 1:39:52 PM

^^ yeah, that's the problem...i could ALMOST stand to have the original homesite back, but there are a few feature in dw that keep me coming back despite the crap

12/18/2008 2:49:36 PM

i just use UltraEdit or notepad

[Edited on December 18, 2008 at 3:48 PM. Reason : ]

12/18/2008 3:48:04 PM