I need recommendations for a good (free) development notepad to work in on my new macbook, mainly for PHP, AJAX etc.
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if you are familiar with vim, or got the time to learn a fairly complex text editor i would recommend checking out macvim
Silfverstrom
2009-05-30 10:56:18
Thanks, i'll take a look.
Oliver Stubley
2009-05-30 10:57:38
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Vim is great text editor for writing web code. It has a steep learning curve, but works on almost all platforms.
Peter Stuifzand
2009-05-30 10:56:36
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TextWrangler is a free Mac text editor, which has PHP support built-in.
Peter Stuifzand
2009-05-30 10:57:48
This looks great, quicker and easier considering my available time, thanks.
Oliver Stubley
2009-05-30 11:03:49
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There is also Aquamacs and Carbon Emacs for an Emacs-flavoured Mac editing experience. Carbon Emacs is closer to the Unix Emacs experience whereas the Aquamacs people have put considerable effort into OS X integration.
Timo Geusch
2009-05-30 11:02:17
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Geany (geany.org) is my IDE of choice. It's lightweight, open-source, and I use it both for programming and note-taking. It supports PHP, C, Python, etc.
wooptoo
2009-05-30 11:11:34
Had trouble finding np++ for Mac, or maybe I just didn't look far enough :/
Oliver Stubley
2009-05-30 12:51:25
I wasn't aware that Notepad++ wasn't available for the Mac. Sorry, edited out.
Rayne
2009-05-30 16:24:20
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I know you've request it be free - but really, I can't stress TextMate enough. It's fantastic and it's also cheap (around $30). It is well worth the price tag.
If you insist on staying free - try Eclipse with PDT.
sobedai
2009-05-30 14:27:29
I will take a look, no harm in having more than one to mess with.
Oliver Stubley
2009-05-30 15:32:15
I use it with all my projects. In my opinion it's the best free web development tool (probably better than most of the paid too).
Raf
2009-05-30 15:41:27
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I'd also suggest trying out Smultron. It's pretty lightweight, but it's a very nice (and free) editor. And, of course, it has support for PHP, JavaScript, and all the major web programming languages built in.
htw
2009-05-30 16:45:09
I use Smultron for all of my web coding and it works great for me. I'm a big fan of its regular expression search/replace and its hot-keys for inserting text snippets. I'm pretty sure the other editors do this as well (I haven't used them,) but Smultron is easy to use and has a great price.
Kyle
2009-06-04 03:06:29