OK, domo arigato for the info. Just saw that they have a demo. Will try that and if it works well I will check for a classroom license so my GUI-biased students might be happier :-)
Philip: emacs? you kids these days :-) This concludes me hijacking the thread, so we can go to the regularly scheduled one. /me with flu at home and bothering the phpdoc list -- Jesus M. Castagnetto <je...@castagnetto.com> Web: http://www.castagnetto.com/ On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 16:50, Philip Olson <phi...@roshambo.org> wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:58 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Jesus M. Castagnetto > > <je...@castagnetto.com> wrote: > >> Sorry to hijack a bit the thread. Being an old-fart Unix-head, I had not > >> used much GUI IDEs for PHP coding, but some of my students are always > asking > >> for those. Only one I've played with is the Eclipse-PDT. > >> Is PHPStorm better or similar to that one? > >> > > > > similar, both eclipse and phpstorm is written in java, so they are > > both available on linux also. > > my personal experience is that phpstorm is better and less resource > hungry. > > people at jetbrains really know how to make a good IDE. > > I think it's important to note that the PHP documentation team, as an > entity, does not prefer or promote specific editors. It's nice that PhpStorm > offered members a license, but that's the extent of it. Not saying anyone > here is saying that but we, as a group, accept and love all editors > equally... even Emacs. :) > > Regards, > Philip > >