![]() ![]() Though I would question the overall value of word wrap in code land due to a high reliance on that capability due to overuse of long lines could be indicative of an inelegant code base. Sometimes it is worth looking outside the application at the actual system, things do not work together by magic and some things just do not play nicely together. Performance complaints have always be issued at Zend from when I used to frequent their forums 4-5 years ago( 5.5 had a lot of the same complaints). I also run XP in classic mode and one of the proposed solutions was turn off native look and feel, some themes did not play nicely etc. Though Zend was always pretty temperemental to speed on certain machines and certain applications running( I couldn’t run Stream Down and Zend together, almost complete halt ) on another machine every time ITunes changed track the keyboard input would freeze. Speed never really had a problem with that excluding it from virus scanners could solve, some of them target java files very agressively( McAffee is awful for this). It took 2.1 to actually make the thing workable again and thers is a strong corelation between the paid for and the free as PDT is the community edition. If you have a bug log it and get a test case made, it shoud stop it coming back if the test case is any good. Now when there is a problem now they add test cases to stop it happening again so may go smoother, though retrofitting test cases in itself is a hard task. Possibly why so much functionality was broken in PDT2.0 when they went to the DLTK, it was originally undocumented and never tested in transmission. PDT/Zend run in the new DLTK( ) part of Eclipse so it could be an uphill struggle to keep in sync if the branch deviates to much. The whole silent majority thing just bugs me, open your mouth and the silent majority still has precedence as yoy are no longer one of them. Zend do not want to heavily branch off of Eclipse and the Eclipse developers can be painfully stubborn. It looks like Zend is losing some big customers due to lack of wordwrap, I stumbled upon this: And I wondered how can a serious editor lack word-wrap? At least I couldn’t find it there at the moment. I was very quickly put off by extremely slow startup and operation. Some time ago I tried Eclipse but not long enough to be able to say much about it. It has some minor bugs but nothing to be worried about and I never lost any data even when I was using development versions. And despite being written in java, jEdit runs pretty fast and starts up fast even with large projects. These are the features I use mostly but there are many other plugins to do many more things. And when you need something very specific you can record or program your own macro to automate any task you need. Very nice and customizable syntax highlighting (the supported programming language list is HUGE), some code completion (however nothing fancy), remote FTP/SFTP editing, integrated SVN, code templates, word-wrap, multiple and rectangular selection, code folding, pretty good auto-indentation, multiple string/word highlighting, file diffs, customizable keyboard shortcuts for virtually any command, customizable context menus, layout (docking) and toolbars, split-screen view, full-screen view, multiple window view, live text search, line markers, back/forward code navigation. It’s not a full-featured IDE but it can find methods and classes within a project, show class structures and underline php errors. As a free program it is very powerful but takes some time to configure it and add proper plugins in order to turn it into a PHP IDE. ![]() It looks like I’m in minority because I use jEdit. ![]()
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