> Hey Chris, > After reading your post I too downloaded SlickEdit...I personally use a mix > of Zend and EditPlus.... > Just opened slickEdit and it seems a bit complicated but more java > oriented...mind telling me why you have such a preference for this?
It's actually C/C++/Java oriented. But you can set up and configure a PHP extension. As to why I like VSE, it is highly configurable and has a fairly powerful macro language. Just about every piece of internal functionality (ie, any of the menu options, highlight text, cursor movements, etc) are set up as macro functions. As a result, you can assign them to any custom button or add them to just about any right click menu (right click and select 'Edit This Menu' at the bottom). Little useful toys such as paren & brace matching, automatic indent (even for cut and pasted code), customizable syntax highlighting, JavaDoc comments aware, different emulation styles (emacs, VC++, etc), Tagging[1], etc. As I said before, it has definitely increased my productivity. Chris [1] I'm not sure if 'Tag'ging is a commonly used word. But in the context of VSE, what that means is that you can tell VSE a directory (let's take PEAR for example) and it'll go through the tree and look at every source file and compile information on every function/class. So when you are coding and start typing the function (or class) name, it'll give you argument information and anything else that might have been in the JavaDoc or PHPDoc comments. Very, very helpful. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
