With the Javascript and XML editors installed, the functionality is pretty much better than DW. I'm only using two things in Dreamweaver - FTP and WYSIWYG design (which I then import into CFeclipse). An FTP option is coming soon to Eclipse, and I just downloaded an FTP extension Firefox.
Some of the features I REALLY like are:
- line code bookmarking - Task management - Ever growing list of extensions and updates
Check out the CFeclispe's Web site for the latest list of features... taking all the best from DW and many of the things we all wished DW had and included them.
I'm actually pretty pleased with my current CFeclispe/DW workflow.
Thanks to the brillant John Beynon, he came up with a pretty amazing idea that is completely possible with CFeclispe: Moving your CFeclipse install to portable hard drive or flash drive. You're development environment and settings can move between any computer with a USB port!
http://www.beynon.org.uk/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=8A9E89BD-ACD0-3695-075971F4425FDEEE
I'm going to set it up this week on my iPod! :)
Matt Woodward wrote:
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:04:49 -0600, Jacob Cameron
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) When I tried to open remote files, it FTP'ed down the images associated
with it. I was using design view, so I didn't need the images, and since I
always code with includes design view doesn't work anyway. My HTML's here
at the office hate that I use header and footer because dreamweaver doesn't
render the pages when it's just HTML in them.
You can shut this off, and in fact by default it asks you each time if you do or don't want it to suck down the related files. If it didn't prompt you that feature got turned off somehow.
I would prefer one of two things: 1) It doesn't try to read the includes
unless it can interpret them, 2) It just renders the part is understands an
ignores the coldFusion, so a lamon can change the text without having to
know HTML. Instead, it does a blend of the two and outputs garbage to the design view
and messes up the code because it thinks it is cleaning it up but it cannot
interpret CF.
If DW actually changed any of your code, then there's a setting in there you should check as well. You can tell DW to not touch any code ever--I don't ever use the design view but I work with a designer who frequently opens my CF files in design view and I've never seen it touch a line of my code.
If anyone knows a tool that has tooltips and such for all three languages
like dreamweaver does and has a back button please let me know.
I'd definitely request the find feature as an enhancement if it's that important to you--it might be something they could add quite easily but just haven't had a request for it. Personally I use DW for both CF and PHP with very few complaints, but everyone has different pain points so it's good there are so many IDEs out there. None are perfect but for my style of doing things (and because I'm on the Mac most of the time ...), I think DW comes darn close. I'm using CFEclipse more and more, and once they have the file browser/FTP stuff 100% done I will likely switch. It's a Java program so it'll run anywhere and has excellent support for both CF and Java. DW really, really sucks for Java.
Matt
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