John Oxton said 1413 days ago:

I am sorry but it has to be Dreamweaver for me, as you say code hinting, syntax highlighting and auto complete, now maybe I am a bad person but I am never going to forget this: and if DW can do half the job for me, great!

I also find it really useful as a word processor. No really, it writes clean code and using split view means when I am typing up I can add those little extras into the code easily.

The fact that nearly all the languages I use have some form of syntax highlighting is a bonus too.

I hear it is slow as hell on a MAC though. Not something I have experienced first hand but then I just thought it was my iBook not being very powerful.

Hayo said 1413 days ago:

Textpad and/or Topstyle.

Darice de Cuba said 1413 days ago:

I’m using TextMate since what over a month. I actually found out about it via your website. I liked it so much I bought a license right after the demo. Its color syntax is much more nicer then other editors, the text is anti-aliased. It’s fast and of course project tabs. The soft wrap works nicer then other editors I have tried. I have taken a liking with the icon also. I have been coding more pleasantly since I’m using TextMate. It’s just right for me.

stu said 1413 days ago:

sKedit is what I’m using these days, however I still use DW to spell check

EAW said 1413 days ago:

Dreamweaver for me also (PC) , for basically all the same reasons as John Oxton. It just works – code highlighting, customizeable formatting, and a nice file browser. I basically never use the WYSIWYG features, but I understand they work pretty well.

Alex said 1413 days ago:

TextMate has been my editor of choice for some time now. It’s lacking some functionality (Printing anyone?), but overall is very solid, versatile and simple at the same time. BBEdit is just too much for a lot of people.

Robert Wydra said 1413 days ago:

I use eclipse with some open source plugins. Works great for me :)

Arie said 1413 days ago:

I swear by Topstyle (winhoax only).
– It is light (unlike DW it doesn’t take weeks to load). – It has customizable syntax highlighting for all languages I use. – It has a hint thingy for suggestions on tags, attributes and css properties. I notifies you of errors.

The only thing I would want more in it is a hint of the available arguments of the php/asp functions you are typing.

Malarkey said 1413 days ago:

Aaaagh! My link got stripped (but displayed in the live preview)
www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/living_without_textpad.html

Humberto Oliveira said 1413 days ago:

I use TopStyle. The main reason is the side by side preview comparision between IE and Mozilla. This single feature is a great time saver when we need to deal with IE CSS bugs.

Chetan said 1413 days ago:

As a pc user, I edit in Textpad (everything) and TopStyle Pro for xhtml and css. Textpad is a very powerful, yet very simple editor capable of
– unlimited memory (only limited by system memory; it loads text files of size 300mb-400mb in seconds!),
– ability to add custom syntax files (for some custom application input, I write my own; and it’s very easy),
– column selection (try cutting and pasting column data back and forth into Excel)—a feature I use extensively for my finite element analysis.

Chris Biagini said 1413 days ago:

Hm…Malarkey’s right…the preview doesn’t match the posted comment. I was admiring the ul in the preview, but it was posted as plain text.

dan said 1413 days ago:

Hands down homesite on PC. I’ve tried to leave it, but it’s thge best text-editor and fully intergrated with top styles. I fear the day Macromedia will stop making it.

david gee said 1413 days ago:

Homesite 5.5 on the PC, and ooccassionally Topstyle 3. I’d probably switch over to Topstyle permanently if it had better extended search-and-replace tools, and if I could get the Mozilla preview to work.

Edoardo Galvagno said 1413 days ago:

I use jEdit!
Open source, written in Java, works on all the major platforms, very extensible with plug-ins and macros.

Some of its pluses are:
multiplatform, it works the same way on all systems (while it may seem not really important, it is for me as I’m the only one in a group of more than 50 to use a Mac, and jEdit is in some ways similar to Coldfusion Studio [that, btw, Macromedia does not support anymore in favor of Dreamweaver that, see below, I don’t value very much])sintax highlighting for many languages (I counted up to 80 and stopped, but there are more…)multiple project or sessions at once, switching from a set of files to anothersql queries via a plug-incvs plug-incode navigationflexible user interface (e.g. horizontal/vertical split views)of course regex search and replace
There are many more plug-ins (more centred on java programming for example, or LaTeX editing, etc…)

When I had to choose which editor to use (some months ago) I tried skEdit as well but at the time it lacked Coldfusion syntax highlighting (that I really need and that was integrated in jEdit by another Coldfusion Studio user who switched editor) and overall seemed less flexible than jEdit.
As I had to switch from Coldfusion Studio (on Windows) it seemed natural to test Dreamweaver: it was (and still is, I think) horribly slow and unstable on my machines (and I’m speaking of a Powermac G4 DP 1.25 GHz and a Powerbook 1.33 GHz) and so I decided I could live with a little less code hinting…

I like SubEthaEdit as well, but it still lacks on some points (very little scriptability) and I really prefer to manage a “project” inside the editor and have a tabbed view instead of multiple windows.
I use it when I have to edit LaTeX files or have casual editing on the fly.

One thing I don’t find necessary is the ability to preview within the editor: I much prefer having a couple of browsers open at all time (even more now that I code on a Mac but have to test against IE on Win…)

All in all, if I were to choose today I would have probably given some more chances to skEdit but back at that time I had to go with jEdit.

Btw, what do you use to edit css files? It may seem off-topic but, while I usually do it within jEdit, I found myself launching more often CSSEdit when I need some exotic properties I can’t recall by heart or when I want to have a “broader” view of my css.

M.e. said 1413 days ago:

Check out HyperEdit. It uses Apple’s Webcore to render pages in REAL time, as you type. Not very useful as a text editor, but it’s neat to see your pages come alive before your eyes.

I have to give a few props to Dreamweaver, too. It’s code hinting and FTP features are great, although it’s php hinting leaves a little to be desired. FTP is huge. There is no browsing on the server, so you can shift command u right from your document and it’s on the server. You can also specify a testing server or FTP files each time you save &mdash always to the proper directory. Zero browsing is very cool.

Oh, and I use Macs and Dreamweaver is not slow in the least.

Ben said 1413 days ago:

When I am using Windows, (at work and previously on my PC then) I use Crimson Editor, a great, very fast and light editor that has ftp, syntax highlighting, tabs etc with a very uncluttered and unintrusive interface.

Having switched recently to a 12” Powerbook, I am struggling to find anything close to it. After some dallying I have chosen Smultron, over Textmate and BBEdit, (although some recommendation shere will be given a go). I mainly struggle because of the screen siz eof the powerbook being what it is.

As an indentation facist, my most desirable function is a highlight-indent/deindent, although good syntax highlighting is also a must.

Jason Beaird said 1413 days ago:

I use a PC here at work and I’ve just started to look for options. A lot of times I need to make quick edits to an html page on a mapped server, so I just jump into it with notepad.

Notepad is great because it’s so quick, but it could really use some features like line numbers and multiple undos.

Right now I’m really enjoying a little open source app called Notepad 2. It opens fast, isn’t bloated with unnecessary features, and is just plain sexy.

Ischa Gast said 1413 days ago:

One word: Topstyle!

Roberto said 1413 days ago:

Vim, that’s for sure. If I could go back to my 18 year old self and say “learn this”, I would say:

# Learn vi(m)
# Learn regular expressions
# Learn Python

Richard@Home said 1413 days ago:

HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com) – Free to use, Windows only though. Works under WINE on *nix though.

Loads of features: Live editing (Save your file and its FTP’d to the server), PHP, HTML and Javascript highlighting in the same document. Same for context sensitive help. Oodles of plugins. Built in HTML-Tidy. Totally customisable GUI.

Jonathan Snook said 1413 days ago:

Dreamweaver is most definitely one of the best editors out there. Except it can be extremely sluggish. For quick editing and most of my coding is actually done using UltraEdit. Super fast, syntax highlighting for anything and completely customizable. You can hotkey anything, handles ascii, utf-8, and unicode. You can create macros. HTMLTidy integration. Has FTP support but I don’t use it. You can set up applications to launch and it can capture dos output.

sean said 1413 days ago:

Vim.
jEdit once in a blue moon.

Jeff Croft said 1413 days ago:

At the moment, I am mostly using Dreamweaver. The biggest reason is that it’s cross platform, so I get the same thing on Mac and Windows. But, I’m getting frustrated with it. Performance on Mac is less than adequate, and it’s unstable for me on both platforms. I’ve peeked at skEdit, SubEthaEdit, and TextMac for OS X, but never really used any of them. I think it’s high time I give them a good solid try.

All that having been said, I’m also a bit of a VIM nerd. I don’t usually use it on Mac or Windows, but I use it a lot to make small edits to files that are already on my (Linux) server, just to save me the time of downloading and reuploading…

Matt Carey said 1413 days ago:

BBEdit still—I know the interface so it makes everything really quick.

mini-d said 1413 days ago:

As a PC User: UltraEdit and TopStyle Pro 3.0. On Macs i’m a BBEdit whore.

Soon i will purchase SubEthaEdit , i love rendezvous features.

soxiam said 1413 days ago:

skedit would’ve been a serious contender for bbedit for me if it added one missing feature: soft wrap that works with line number turned on. Of course, topsyle pro on pc blows both of these away.

Craig Ingram said 1413 days ago:

More love for skEdit!

Nick Santilli said 1412 days ago:

Ha! Richard@Home nailed it before I could.
Since all the PC users are chiming in (even though you’re only looking for OSX solutions Jon… ;) they should ALL check out HTML Kit for PC code editing. (http://www.chami.com/)
It’s the ONLY piece of software I miss using (on a PC) since I got my PowerBook. It’s free, and just a fantastic editor. does it all. PC Users: go check it out now.

ok, that’s out of the way.
sadly, I don’t have any osx gems to add. I’m a SubEthaEdit fellow myself, with a little DW mixed in on occassion. I’ve toyed with most found in these comments, but never really pick up on them as much as SEE. Will probably give skEdit another try because of your endorsement JOn, but don’t think it’ll take with me…

Keith Bell said 1412 days ago:

OK, so here’s a couple I haven’t seen mentioned yet. All my work originally was on PC, and I’ve always liked applications that do just enough and no more – i.e. not a lot of bells and whistles that I’ll rarely if ever use. So I liked Paul Lutus’ Arachnophilia, which was Windows-only at that time.

When I started using Macs as well as PCs, I needed a code editor for the Mac. I tried out Optima System’s PageSpinner because I remember Jeffrey Zeldman writing that he used it, so if it was good enough for him… Anyway, I liked it and stuck with it.

But then Paul Lutus re-wrote Arachnophilia in Java and so now it’s platform-independent, and I’m back to using just one code editor again. There might be more feature-rich editors around, but I hate “learning” new applications after investing time in getting to know and customise one to my needs, and Arachnophilia does everything I want. And did I mention it’s FREE?

Keith Bell said 1412 days ago:

Aagh! Links were stripped out (Comment 60). I’ll try it this way:

Arachnophilia: http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/

PageSpinner: http://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/index.html

Arie said 1412 days ago:

So, next survey about favorite ftp clients?

John Serris said 1412 days ago:

I had the “joy” of using DW on OSX a few weeks ago and almost threw the computer out the window. I use topstyle pro on PC. Fast, no BLOAT and does what it’s suppose to do without getting in the way.

Jeremy Koempel said 1412 days ago:

skEdit all for all of my coding needs. It is quick, featured without being over-featured and $20. To top it off, the skEdit creator isn’t a day over 20 years of age!

Seth Messer said 1412 days ago:

Jon, funny you bring this up, I had been struggling with this same thing for quite sometime, only specifically for my windows machine(s). I have since then settled upon Crimson Editor, though I will revisit Textpad again only cuz Malarkay says so. On my powerbook I stick to BBEdit, though Textmate has a TON of votes it seems like, as does skEdit. So i’ll definitely give those a try.

Good luck with your search.

Scott Johnson said 1412 days ago:

I like a text editor that works wherever I work. As such, I have found myself using (g)vim everywhere lately. It’s on all of the servers that I use. And in the rare case that it’s not on a server, vi will suffice. And on my PC at work, gvim works much better than notepad. And it came preinstalled on my Mac. It’s just the most ubiquitous editor for my environments, and that, along with its excellent features, makes it the best editor for me.

Daniel Schierbeck said 1412 days ago:

Eclipse IDE with PHPeclipse Plugin

Cross-platform, very flexible, supports FTP and CVS etc etc. Me likeh.

Caleb Jaffa said 1412 days ago:

I use a bunch of editors regularly. Sometimes when I start on a site I’ll whip it up in skEdit, but as mentioned the undo history getting munged, etc. hold it back. It was still well worth the price though. I am adjusting to using TextMate, but I haven’t been doing a lot of coding lately, so I haven’t had the incentive to really get in and get comfortable with it. I think TextMate holds the most promise for my style of doing things. I am a switcher of about 2 years. So Dreamweaver which is basically WYSIWYG on top of Homesite should have been a no brainer. However the Mac version feels like its the Windows square peg version trying to go through the round hole of Mac OS X. Speed is an issue too. However if I could point to one application and say I just want a Mac (not that it just runs on Mac, but done by people who understand what a Mac application is) Homesite. Then there is BBEdit. I never wanted to like it as much as I do. I thought it was missing the mark for me, it was a good C/C++/etc. editor, not really a HTML/CSS one. Now that I have some alternative, I still find myself launching it daily, I guess using it for almost two years will do that to you. The last one I use almost daily is Nano, anytime I am playing around with stuff in the terminal I find it easier to just edit configuration files, etc. in nano.

mathew h. said 1412 days ago:

i’m all over bbedit 8’s demo (18 days left!) as my default plain text editor. i’ve tried subEtha and textmate, pico(!), skEdit, jEdit and more, but always seem to come back to the bb.

in the new version of bbedit, i appreciate the “file-drawer” which is a great mac-looking addition to the application. it’s now easier to edit documents and see which ones are different, etc. there is soo much this app seems to think that i can do that i can’t wait to get in there and start digging.

that said, the price tag is terrible and 99% of the reason that i’m using the demo up until the very-last-second. i like the skEdit pricetag.

hehe. this sounds a little wonky, but i’m all over the icons and interface of an app. if i don’t like the icon and how it looks in my dock, i don’t use the app. plain and simple. if i hate how the interface looks (regardless of the app’s power), i don’t use it. it’s very hard to use edit plus 2 at work in that respect. textmate’s icon is terrible (no offense intended). the skEdit one is pretty sweeth (hehe.. suckup..).

for a rick-text editor i flipflop back and forth between a number of apps, but mainly stick my my main-dog, xPad which is delightfullly brilliant for all of my quick-jotting needs. creating new docs and colour-organising them is great. like skEdit, you can email a question about it to its maker and he’ll reply to you personallly. try it! you’ll love it!

thanks,
-m

Pascal said 1412 days ago:

skEdit + 1

Although I’m tempted to turn back to DW sometimes… and to really try out bbedit.

but then, there is pretty much bang for your 20 bucks in that skEdit thingy.

Dante Evans said 1412 days ago:

My favourite would have to be TSW Webcoder; it has all the functions you listed, although the latest version seems rather buggy (or maybe it’s features).

David Schontzler said 1412 days ago:

Another VIM vote here.

It has better syntax highlighting support than other programs I’ve used. I’m now very comfortable with it and find it a pain to use anything else. On Windows, there is an Intellisense plugin (useful for .NET), and I just discovered the ctags plugin. Pricless.

Yea, I know, I’m old fashioned, but I’m only 21! I’ve been using VIM since this summer and it is definitely worth the learning curve.

Stephane Curzi said 1412 days ago:

TextMate, too many little thing that bother me
SkEdit, Almost the best but I think the auto complete of tags is counter-productive when you edit a text, a better fonction is a close tag.
Smultron, my favorite these days, but no code hinting :-(
GoLive, too big but still, I use it all the time.

When I first started, I didn’t find anything so I decide to learn the basic of Cocoa programming, a year later cssWriter was born. I’m not a programmer so there is still no syntax coloring but it does almost what I want, I do use it as my main CSS editor even if there is almost all the code for XHTML. here’s a screenshot :
http://www.projetsurbain.com/projets/csswriter.jpg

Kevin Tamura said 1412 days ago:

Currently I use BBedit at home, but will be making the switch to SKedit.

At work I use HomeSite since I’m on a PC.

Cheers,
K

Brian Behrend said 1412 days ago:

I use skEdit when working on a Mac and Dreamweaver MX 2004 on PC. As someone with a Java/VB programming background, I’m used to working with IDE’s with autocomplete. I couldn’t leave behind that feature now that I’m working more with HTML and CSS.

TextPad was an excellent editor, and if it had code completion I probably would still be using it and never have even tried DW.

Jeff Harrell said 1412 days ago:

Wow. Sixty-seven skrillion comments. I’m not going to lie and say that I read them all.

I use SubEthaEdit for HTML and CSSEdit for CSS. The built-in WebKit previewer in SubEthaEdit is essential.

Caleb Maclennan said 1412 days ago:

I am going to have to cast my vote for vim along with Marcus Ramberg, TaQ, Scott, sean, Martin Sweeney, and Scott Johnson. I honestly do not think most of the rest of you understand the power of a text editor that can do anything you can think of in a single keystroke. There just are not any gui based editors that can match it for speed and versatility; not to mention syntax highlighting, autocompletion, autoformating, macros, shell integration, and customizability.

Want to preview in a browser from a remote server? Not a problem. Want to use the current window to load the w3c documentation for the css property of php function under the cursor? Not a problem.

Nothing against you emacs people (or person, since it’s just walter here!). The power is there too, so keep rocking it.

Jeff Smith said 1412 days ago:

SubEthaEdit for me. I like it’s simplicity, as well as the fact that it supports Rendezvous collaboration.

Jon Hicks said 1412 days ago:

“I honestly do not think most of the rest of you understand the power of a text editor that can do anything you can think of in a single keystroke”

I’d agree. I don’t ‘get’ Vim at all. As a designer looking for a HTML/CSS/PHP editor, I really see no advantage in using Vim. I guess you have to know how to use it properly (which is big issue), but it just feels so alien to me, like it’s telling me to go away. I also prefer an editor that allows me to open multiple files in one window. Can Vim do this?

Vim and Emacs look ideal for serious programmers, but I’m not a serious programmer, I’m a designer, who needs to code in order to implement ny designs with web standards.

Chris said 1412 days ago:

I’ve used skEdit for some time but have switched to TextMate since it was released. It’s integration of virtually any application that can be called on the command line makes it the most powerful tool/editor at hand.

There are many things that still need improvement, but I think the next release will already fix some of the most requested things like print support and a preferences window (finally!).

dille said 1412 days ago:

jEdit or Vim, depending on the situation. Both very un-Mac-like, but they get the job done very nicely, and they’re both very powerful.

Phil Moore said 1412 days ago:

After hearing you mention SkEdit a while ago, I trialled it, and subsequently began using it.

I only have DreamWeaver for Windows, and the way it seems to auto-format code (unless you’re extremely careful with where you click) just annoys me.

I find the syntax checking in skEdit for PERL rather useful too ^_

Joshua Heyer said 1412 days ago:

Mac: skEdit
Win: Topstyle Pro

Mike said 1412 days ago:

Can I get a WHOOP WHOOP for Homesite and TopStyle?!

......ya, i’m on a PC.

Colin Barnes said 1412 days ago:

Dreamweaver for me everytime (Code view only). I like the fast access to ftp, this allows me to edit directly on the server and have a view of all the files in the directory, I like how it handles multiple pages, I like the spell checker and the ability to have some incredible extensions..

I don’t find it slow at all on my G5 after I added the patch from the macromedia website.

I’ve tried skEdit and Textmate, these are both good, but I can’t live without the inbuilt ftp and file view.

chris said 1412 days ago:

I happen to use HTML-Kit and I think it’s pretty bad as far as editors go. It has broken tab support for those of us who favor tabs over spaces. It’s bloated. You have to sift through hundreds of plugins for functionality that should just plain be in an HTML editor. It only has 3 things going for it in my book: create file from clipboard, remote editing of files via FTP, and syntax highlighting with special coloring for PHP function names. However, it’s missing useful features such as convert selected text to lowercase or make selected text into paragraphs or lists or grouped undos I used to enjoy from a very dated and equally free 1st Page 2000 (not to be confused with FrontPage) by Evrsoft. But, 1st Page has a lot going against it, too: it doesn’t handle unknown file types very well (even if you try and tell it to support filetype xyz), no PHP syntax highlighting, and it must open an empty document on start-up, and development of it seems to have been forgotten 3 years ago.

Since I discovered Web Drive by South River Technologies (http://www.southrivertech.com/index.php?pg=./products/webdrive/index), the remote editing of files HTML-Kit provides is no longer a selling point because now any editor I want can do it.

As much as I would love to try HomeSite, Macromedia has 2 strikes against them in my book: they reject my browser and they want my email address just to download a demo. I don’t want to try it that bad.

Brady White said 1412 days ago:

ZEND Studio is the best text editor I use for PHP and is available on the mac. The list goes on for the PC… Dreamweaver MX 2004 => HTML / CSS with Layouts
Context (PC ONLY) => has great translators, you can even write Actionscript (.AS Files) with it

gb said 1412 days ago:

I use a combination of BBEdit 8 (for editing files directly on a server), skEdit (just lovely, but sometimes get quirky), and CSSEdit for the CSS files. It would appear I’m a sucker for anything with “Edit” in the title.

Michael Bester said 1412 days ago:

At work, on the PC, it’s HomeSite 5 for me. I use it every day and wouldn’t trade it for anything else.

On the Mac at home, it’s skEdit all the way.
skEdit It is shaping up to be a killer application, and its nice to see that Sean is so responsive to user feedback to improve it. If there is any one feature that HomeSite has which I feel that skEdit lacks (for now), it’s tabbed windows. I would much prefer to use them to switch between open files then the dropdown menu. I’ve suggested this to Sean – perhaps it’ll make a future version.

I occaisionaly use CSSEdit as well, but I find it too sluggish on my well-worn G4 for heavy use.

1beb said 1412 days ago:

Context!

Cam said 1412 days ago:

SubEthaEdit, for all the reasons outlined above.

skEdit comes in a close second.

I have tried playing with Eclipse for coding, but it’s a bit heavy-handed for what I need.

Nell said 1412 days ago:

How timely. I downloaded skEdit yesterday and will start using it today to code a new site. It has a lot of features I had been looking for, like tag completion and automatic conversion of special characters to HTML entities. Jon, I love the icon.

Before, I used BBEdit. I’m looking for other editors because the update price is a little high for me.

I also use CSSEdit. I love it, it helped me a lot to learn CSS. It works fine for me in my old G4.

I downloaded TextMate, but I didn’t understand a lot of the features. I guess it’s more oriented for heavy coders.

Andyk said 1412 days ago:

Dreamweaver MX 2004 and/or TextPad

I’m too lazy to write HTML from scratch but I get quite finicky about code cleanliness so more often than not, I’ll spend most of my time in code view!

I use TextPad for writing PHP n stuff… just because it uses next to no system resources. Oh and occassionally I’ll use VI on my web server for quick and dirty changes. ;o)

Ian Phillip said 1412 days ago:

I’ve just gone over to skEdit. It’s still a little rough ‘round the edges, but the interface is wonderful, the automation/autocompletion/code-hint features are superb and it’s small, light and fast. The icons are quite nice as well!

Honestly, it must be the best tenner I’ve spent in my professional life.

Dave Foy said 1412 days ago:

skEdit and CSSEdit all the way for me. Looking forward to skEdit 3.5!

Joop Vos said 1412 days ago:

BBEdit because that’s the one I started with several years ago … still only for HTML … because of the upgradeprice, I’m planning to give skEdit a try … and I do CSS with that very impressive little prog called CCSEdit!

Rachel said 1411 days ago:

I used to use Homesite on Windows but have recently dumped it in favour of Eclipse – which is fantastic along with the PHP plugin. I use Emacs a reasonable amount especially when working on a remote box as it is generally available and agree with Janne that it is worth the time spent to learn how to use it. I also use Topstyle on the PC, Quanta on Linux, Netbeans sometimes, I tend not to use a lot of the features of editors so I’m not too tied to one in particular.

greg said 1411 days ago:

eclipse is also phenomenal. however, i consider eclipse to be more for hardcore programming tasks, whereas asp/php/perl all feel lighter-weight.

basically, i use VIM when i want speed of loading and just want to code now. i use eclipse when im doing software design and super hardcore stuff.

Rob McMichael said 1411 days ago:

Thanks Jon, I was trying to extend my trial on the very expensive BBedit (poor student here) and love Skedit (plus the icon looks great next to transmit)

Thanks for the heads up

Rob

Vladimir said 1411 days ago:

I’ve tried Golive, didn’t like it, too bloated on site management, it also doesn’t feel like an adobe app. Dreamweaver is better, but i stopped using that years ago, back at v4. occasionally the odd editor gets installed, but quickly get uninstalled.

For HTML + CSS, Topstyle Pro. For Serverside Coding, it’s got to be MS Visual Studio. Afterall, can anyone else suggest a C# editor? I work on a PC by the way.

has anyone mentioned notepad yet? ok i know notepad2 is out there, and its pretty good, but hey, i’m a traditionalist

Mark said 1411 days ago:

skEdit for all my HTML and CSS writing. I am very happy with skEdit and I happen to know a live preview is planned for one of the upcoming releases. Its light, its fast, its elegant and just awesome to use.

Elliott Pogue said 1411 days ago:

TextMate for PHP and HTML. CSSEdit for CSS.

Phil Baines said 1411 days ago:

It has to be Dreamweaver MX 2004 for me, but never as a visual designer, only as a text editor and for file managment. The code highlighting is great, and the intellisense is great. Plus the FTP built into it helps a great deal.

I quite commenly use the edit CSS extention in Firefox aswell. It is great to see things changing on the page as you are coding, and now with the later versions of editCSS you can save the file when you have finished.

nikobe said 1411 days ago:

Like you I tried several editors and finally settled on skedit, speed was the main factor. Auto complete is invaluable and the project management makes sense.

Can’t beat the price either.