Hello I came across this blog which compared the most famous text editors syntax highlighting feature.
http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/text-editors-for-coders-deathmatch-review/ The test is to check the php code for proper syntax highlighting This is the Test Code: <?php $pattern = '(<body[^>]*?>'; /* abcdef multi-line */ $hello = <<<HELLO <<<<--! jk --> >>> /* abcdef HELLO; function echoit($pattern) { echo "123 456 $pattern"; echo '123 456 $pattern'; foreach (array(1,2,3) as $val) { echo $val; } } echo "/*"; echo '//';echoit($pattern); ?>. >From the blog: cite: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From this incongruous yet efficient snippet, I was expecting to check, at a glance and in less than 10 seconds, the following 9 tests: 1. Line 3: will the editor think the regular expression pattern is actually the closing ?> PHP tag 2. Line 5 to 7: can you collapse multiline comments 3. Line 9: heredoc, part one, does the editor understands we're just defining a string 4. Line 12: heredoc, part tow, does the editor gets that we're not starting a multi line comment 5. Line 16: can you collapse regular code block 6. Line 17 & 18: will the editor display differently these two lines(variable in the first one, just text in the second one) 7. Line 19: how will the editor display nicely (or not) the nested code folding marks 8. Line 24: will the editor think we're starting a multi line comment 9. Line 25: will the editor think we're commenting out the line -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I tested out the code and it did fail the test. Can the devs give this a shot ? -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,46034,46034> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
