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Free Text Editors
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:40 am
by Rm Sppej Es
Hi, I currently use
Note Tab Lite.
I had been advised a while back that
Crimson Editor was best because it saves without BOM, which is neccessary for writing php files.
However, I don't like Crimson too much, for various personal reasons.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any alternative free text editors, that will save without BOM?
Many thanks.
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:21 am
by DavidIQ
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:20 pm
by Pond Life
I use Note Tab Light and haven't had any problems with php files.
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:00 am
by Ricky_Racer
Probably the best
FREE !!! Text editor ever.
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:24 pm
by god0fgod
I use this program called Geany. Aparently it's available for many operating systems.
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:56 pm
by Josso
Seconded.
An essential download right there...
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:04 pm
by DavidIQ
Josso wrote:
Seconded.
An essential download right there...
I especially like the fact that it integrates into Internet Explorer's view source function and the right-click - Edit with Notepad++ is also pretty handy when you don't want your PHP files or HTML files to open up with the default program. Also color codes.
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:26 pm
by rxu
Notepad++
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:42 pm
by TheIlluminative
Notepad++
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:12 pm
by KeithR
Notepad++
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:07 pm
by A_O_C
i too use notepad++, its just the best.
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:34 pm
by ToonArmy
gedit for desktop, nano or vim when editing on remote servers.
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:24 pm
by ihermit
Josso wrote:
Seconded.
An essential download right there...
Agreed.
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:46 pm
by dsavi
I hope nobody kills me when I say that I don't like notepad++, it uses Comic Sans Ms as one of the fonts and I can't be bothered to compile it from source, let alone change that part of the code.
Re: Free Text Editors
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:07 pm
by DavidIQ
dsavi wrote:I hope nobody kills me when I say that I don't like notepad++, it uses Comic Sans Ms as one of the fonts and I can't be bothered to compile it from source, let alone change that part of the code.
Settings -> Style Configurator -> php -> COMMENT and COMMENTLINE
Change it from Comic Sans MS. This thing is almost completely customizable.