60% of what makes an editor good is familiarity. Take emacs for instance (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html). Running PHP Mode (http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/) I fly through code. But I've also spent quite a lot of time memorizing the zillion or so commands to do things automatically.
There are people who love ViM (http://www.vim.org/). I personally hate it. But I've never spent the time learning it that I have with Emacs. I honestly can't tell you that if I spent as much time using ViM as I do Emacs I wouldn't fly through code. (By the way, if you spend any time on a Unix or Unix like environment I suggest you learn how to use both Vi and Emacs at least for basic stuff.) Then again, you may want to jump to something else. Google for more options. I believe Zend (the makers of PHP) have a PHP Studio program. So google around, try things out, and see what you like. And don't let anybody tell you one editor is superior to another. 60% of what makes an editor good is familiarity. And the other 40% is personal preference. (I know some people who can't hit a couple dozen keys in combination to do something -- one of the things Emacs is notorious for. Vi(M) makes more sense for those people). -Dan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
