Comments on: TextMate and phpDoc Comment Blocks

By: Demian Turner

Demian Turner — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:58:28 +0000

Hi Clay – nice redesign btw Am very close to caving in for a powermac, does Zend run similarly performance-wise to how it runs on Linux?

I would hate to make the big switch then find the app i use all day long runs like a dog.

The above comments don’t mention debuggers, surely that’s the deciding factor in choosing an editor.

By: Mathieu Kooiman

Mathieu Kooiman — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:14:35 +0000

TextMate is capable of doing that by itself, actually. Since I just got my first Mac and have no clue on what the actual keys names (I suppose ‘K on its side’ just doesn’t fly) are, I’ll just give you the link to the cheat-sheet where I found the key combination in:

http://www.g-design.net/textmate.pdf

Look for “Continue comment line”. Other usefull links for working with TextMate can be found on the MacroMates weblog: http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2006/05/12/tutorials-and-cheat-sheets/

By: Ed Finkler

Ed Finkler — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:59:21 +0000

Enormously helpful. I love TextMate (I’ve entirely ditched BBEdit), but pine for many of the php-specific shortcuts that the ZDE provides. You are a good man.

By: Clay

Clay — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:18:59 +0000

Jonas, that’s interesting — I actually looked at jEdit over the weekend before settling down to play with TextMate.

I’m still relatively new to TextMate, so I may be incorrect with this statement, but — I believe TextMate does all of the things you’ve mentioned, with the exception of running on Windows and Linux.

Since I develop on Mac OS X, I don’t care if my editor of choice runs on Windows or Linux. In fact, TextMate (and BBEdit, for that matter) are appealing because they don’t try to be all things to all users of all platforms. Instead, they focus on Mac users and spare us all the overhead of running Java-based applications. As such, both are considerably faster on OS X than any Java-based editor will ever be.

I’d take that perk over multi-platform support any day.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:00:23 +0000

I’m a Mac User and use jEdit for the following reasons:
- Faster than Zend, Eclipse and co.
- [S]FTP Plugin
- PHP Parser Plugin (shows you trivial mistakes)
- CodeBrowser (TreeView of Classes Functions and all variables)
- XHTML completion
- HyperSearch (Searching Replacing with regexp over whole directorys, open buffers or just the current one)
- Filebrowsepane
- Tidy integration
- It runs on every operating system
- Great Syntax Highlighting and Folding
- Nice OS X integration with the OSX Plugin
- Runs on Windows, OSX, Linux and so on
- Great Plugin Manager with a huge number of usefull Plugins (keep it small, or bloat it your self )
- It’s GPL !!!!!!

There is just one important thing if your a Mac User, you have to download the 4.3pre4 version, because the older versions suck on OSX. One of the Core Developer made a DMG and .app just for me:
http://community.jedit.org/misc/jEdit4.3pre4.dmg

By: Clay

Clay — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:25:20 +0000

Hmm… I can’t think of anything that I’d want a Windows version of. As it is, I’m already resentful that I have to run a copy of Windows on my MacBook Pro.

By: Alan Knowles

Alan Knowles — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:49:57 +0000

Leds (www.dsource.org/projects/leds) with PHP autocompetion / parsing is getting closer … I’ve pretty much dumped my old editor for it.

The code for the editor is pretty simple, and easy to understand, so adding stuff like you mention here should be trivial. – you also get to understand editors, without having to read 1000’s of files (think of eclipse). And it’s lightweight (eg. fast) and D’s an interesting language to learn – alot like PHP in many ways…

I guess you probably want a windows version – that should be feasible, although probably a bit of a challenge