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Originally Posted by LightSpeed
php was written without an ide.
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If this is true, remember that it also wasn't written in a web development language. Besides, some people walk to the store, others drive.
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Originally Posted by raymor
Don't underestimate a powerful text editor set up and used by someone who really knows it. I've tried out several IDEs and I've done significant work in Visual Studio, the king of IDEs. Only because a know vi so well, I can get more done faster in vim than any bloated IDE. Does your IDE automatically insert proper error handling for you? My text editor does.
Yes vi has been around since 1976. Did you know that in vi when I type "open " it automatically expands to a full open statement, with proper error handling like this?:
open( , "") or die "Could not open '': $!";
Similarly "while" auto expands to:
while () {
}
So those kinds of niceties are there, but coding is really mainly editing the code, which is text. Assuming you know the language and aren't spending a lot of time in the help, coding is 90% text editing. For text editing, nothing beats a great text editor.
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That's very true. phpEd, what I use for PHP, is pretty much a text editor. Keyboard shortcuts for most of the things I do, auto-complete, auto-expanding, automatic indenting, etc. But then it also handles my directory trees, uploading, entire-path searching, etc.