[wp-hackers] Which editor do you use?

[Urban Hådén]

I've been using Ultra Edit for years but PHPStorm sounds interesting..

Greetings
/Urban



2011/10/18 Diana K. Cury <dianakac at gmail.com>

> Thanks everybody!
>
> I find vim terrible lol Gonna try out the Phpstorm.
>
> Microsoft editors are the best indeed, not sure but... they aren't up to
> develop anything  for php, since they have asp for choose :( too bad. I need
> to use different editors when creating themes and plugins, esp. themes, as
> most editors aren't helpful rendering css sometimes, I try everything for
> save time.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Mann" <eric at eam.me>
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> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Which editor do you use?
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>>>  I heard about Visual Studio being the best thing on editing code, not
>>> sure
>>> if works nice with php and css tough. Also, some people recommend
>>> CodeBlocks
>>> etc
>>>
>>>
>> For the record, I spend 8+ hours per day coding in Visual Studio for my
>> day
>> job.  But that's all .Net (C#) development.  For CSS, HTML, XML,
>> JavaScript,
>> etc I absolutely love it.  It's a lot better than plan old text editors
>> because of intellisense (termed "intellicrack" by some of my co-workers).
>> No guessing what methods/properties your objects have.  Fantastic for
>> working with .Net code, and it's got great extensions for JS, too.
>>
>> I actually have jQuery intellisense built right in to the editor.
>>
>> For PHP code, though, it's a far cry from perfect.  Microsoft hasn't taken
>> any steps to integrate PHP into the editor, and the third-party tools that
>> *
>> do* pull in the syntax haven't proven (to me at least) that they're very
>> mature.  So when I build code for WordPress, I usually switch over to
>> PhpStorm.
>>
>> Like VS, PhpStorm gives you intellisense support, but only for the code
>> *in
>> your project*.  So if you want syntactic suggestions for core WP
>> functionality, you need to load the entire WP codebase in your project ...
>> rather than just loading the plugin or theme you're actively developing.
>> There might be a workaround or two for this, but I haven't found them yet.
>>
>> But if you're spending a lot of time working in an IDE, *any IDE*, make
>> sure
>> you pick one that enables intellisense.  You'll thank yourself later. :-)
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