Ok - for the sake of the nit-pickers. Lets re-phrase it to: PHP DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT Preference and Experience.
If you use emacs, text editors .. I want to know about it - let's see what all the coders in the NZPHPUG use! ~ C -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Wednesday, 21 October 2009 10:19 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [phpug] Re: PHP IDE Preference and Experience Quite clearly you have not used an IDE project support, tabs, syntax highlighting, command completion, function completion These are editor functions with a few syntactical additions If you can add in coded object introspection, debugging, ad hoc method completion then you are getting close Neven > Integrated Development Environment ... what exactly is emacs and vim? > i have a lot of stuff integrated in my vim and it does help me develop > very efficient. emacs is probably _the_ integrated development > environment. calling emacs just an editor makes obvious you never used > it in anger. > > IDE does not mean mouse support and many colorful memory hogs. my vim > has project support, tabs, syntax highlighting could do command > completion, function completion and what ever you can get out of the > shiny ones that are mentioned here ... just in text mode. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Neven MacEwan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Guys >> >> EMACs and Geany are Editors, As good as they are they do not constitute >> an IDE >> >> Neven >> >> >>> +1 for Geany, for pretty much the same reasons as Stu mentions. >>> >>> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 14:09 +1300, Stu Meads wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I like Geany(on both Linux and Windoze) >>>> >>>> Pros: has code completion, sufficient php file management tools, and >>>> most importantly for me is that is uses very little system resources, >>>> I tend to have a lot of crap open on my desktop. Is also very stable, >>>> never crashes. Does 95% of what I need in an IDE, maybe more, I >>>> haven't explored it's available plugins >>>> >>>> Cons: doesn't have some of the fancier integration features >>>> >>>> I don't think there's any IDE I haven't tried at one stage or another, >>>> I had a version of Zend in 2007 which I liked, and Php Designer 2007 >>>> which I used until last year, have tried nothing new for over a year >>>> though as I'm quite happy with Geany. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
