Notepad Baby!

[Trashed20]

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ i presume?

I'll have to check it out. Seems to have all the stuff i use in dreamweaver without all the bloat. I may have to switch Thanks!

[Duke 13370]

As trashed said, i'm now the webmaster for our team, (along with Wally, but i don't think he registered here) i used to only use notepad, but after opening too many windows, i found VS.net was better. The only difference is it's tabbed, it doesn't do syntax hylighting (well, i could set it to, but i never have) or any other fancy stuff. I still use notepad if i have to just change a couple lines, but not too much.

[Jeremy_Mc]

I usually use metapad (google for 'metapad'). It handles Linux files with ease. No syntax highlighting, but after getting use to not having it, it's really distracting to use something like UltraPad...

If I'm on Linux (which isn't exactly a rare occurance...) then I usually use nano. It's quick, easy, and lacks any sort of complicated command structure. I like vi, but I'm WAYYYY to lazy to learn anything past the open and save commands.

[MichalSkiba]

Textpad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (vr. 4.0)

I use it for everything (except typing report, for that theres openoffice). For all you Polakz out there, theres a Polish version avalible.

I'm not sure about PHP and such, but it does automatic tabing and syntax/keyword highlighting for C/C++ files. Its got neat auto-tabbing that adjusts to however much you indented on the previous line. It has neat side bars and there are tabs that allow you to have multiple files open in one "IDE". Best of all, it absolutly free!!!!!!! (and theres a Polish translation!!!!)


Oh ya, after installing it, if you right click on a file, the option for opening it with textpad is in the main option bar (in XP). enjoy!

[Stephen Kowski]

bah I use VS.NET or Dreamweaver whatever the situation needs......if im making a house I'm not going to pound the nails in with my fist, im going to use a tool to make the job easier.

[iamnafets]

Excuse me, there is great satisfaction from building a handhammered house. Like the glory of "wow, he did that with that?!"

[Trashed20]

Originally Posted by iamnafets

Excuse me, there is great satisfaction from building a handhammered house. Like the glory of "wow, he did that with that?!"

And "That is one proud man with a bloody lump of flesh he used to call a hand"

[Aaron Knight]

Meh

I'm not one to talk about hand-coding, as I use Adobe GoLive CS for a lot of stuff, but I primarily hand-code using PageSpinner (mac) just because of syntax coloring

Not to say Notepad isn't worth using, but I get really really sick of downloading files from the server to do quick edits on a PC at school just to find it ignored all 100+ line breaks in the page I want to edit........

I must say I am partial to syntax coloring, as well as the somewhat more visual process available in GoLive et al. for very quick edits. Notepad as a simple dev tool is ok, but there are many better non-"cheating" methods of web design that are more efficient. Text editors with syntax coloring are still text editors and you're still hand-coding....

[iamnafets]

Originally Posted by Aaron Knight

Meh

I'm not one to talk about hand-coding, as I use Adobe GoLive CS for a lot of stuff, but I primarily hand-code using PageSpinner (mac) just because of syntax coloring

Not to say Notepad isn't worth using, but I get really really sick of downloading files from the server to do quick edits on a PC at school just to find it ignored all 100+ line breaks in the page I want to edit........

I must say I am partial to syntax coloring, as well as the somewhat more visual process available in GoLive et al. for very quick edits. Notepad as a simple dev tool is ok, but there are many better non-"cheating" methods of web design that are more efficient. Text editors with syntax coloring are still text editors and you're still hand-coding....

I never really run into problems with the line breaks because all my stuff is done in the same program. And I usually do it on a network share or via a utility I ported to windows called My Shell I think, though I call it Teldos. It's got a nifty editor that works really well for web edits especially if you're working with server-side stuff that can't be run on your client machine without additional software. If anyone wants a copy, I'd be glad to email you mine, but I've somewhat customized it to my needs so you'd have to remove some of that. I don't really mind editors with syntax editing, I think they all fit in the category of hand coding as you say, and I've really gotten to like Dev-PHP as mentioned earlier by one of the users of this thread (I think Sanddrag) mostly because I can now tab entire paragraphs when I want to add a simple error detection if to encompass the whole page and not mess up my beautiful hierarchy. But syntax highlighting is just too arbitrary to be useful for me except when I leave a quote open and the rest of the page turns green making it quite easy to find...

[little-lulu88]

http://www.tj2.org

I coded the site entirely by hand on notepad... but then again, I don't concern myself with anything too difficult. I just make things look nice


-Lulu

[dragonpaulz]

Why use a text editor? Some of us are pushed for time and using a wysiwyg like dreamweaver you speed up the process of designing.

[Michael Auchter]

Notepad? Bah!
phire.org
it isn't my team's site, but phire.org is mine.
it was coded entirely in vi, in a combination of php/html, with text file operations. although, it doesn't look complex on the outside, the backend is the bulk of the code. there is a link to it on the site if anyone needs a nice news posting script.

[iamnafets]

Nice. Yes, the backend for our site is amazingly complex, so far to the point that it's worthless.

[deltacoder1020]

Crimson Editor is a GREAT barebones-text editor, and the support of defining your own language syntax specifications can be nice too.

If you're using a Mac, I highly recommend (read: you really really really should) checking out SubEthaEdit, on www.codingmonkeys.de - not only is it a fast and slim text editor with syntax highlighting, it also allows you to use Rendezvous to have multiple people working in the same document at one time - this creates ample opportunities for some really interesting programming dynamics.

Oh, and you want to see hand-coding? Take a peek at the site I'm developing along with a friend at www.vectorray.com - it's not quite finished yet, but yes, every inch of that site was hand-coded, mostly in SubEthaEdit (okay, images are an exception, but they *were* self-done in Photoshop). Feel free to send comments on the site to webmaster@vectorray.com

[evulish]

Whoever said emacs.. eww I do all of my editing directly on my server so I use vi when I plan on doing a lot of work (with syntax hl'ing on, of course) or I use mcedit for simple fixes. I don't use an IDE for any type of programming I do.. mostly PHP, but still. The first two links in my sig are the sites I made.. nothing special. I'm more of a programming guy than a creative guy.. the PHP for my site is way more impressive (There's so much stuff on my site I don't link to.. forum, BBS, calendar, image gallery, shopping cart, a couple games)