From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EZc5x-0004R9-Oz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:37:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA8Mag8C028353; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:36:42 GMT Received: from titanium.dowco.com (titanium.dowco.com [209.87.128.114]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA8MTbWf027786 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:29:37 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([207.34.148.32]) by titanium.dowco.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jA8MTatY074902 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mshaw@dowco.com) Message-ID: <437126BF.9030401@dowco.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:29:19 -0800 From: Michael Shaw User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL References: <4370EF94.9020104@dowco.com> <1131487561.8755.8.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> In-Reply-To: <1131487561.8755.8.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 897998a6-1daa-4627-9ded-f72b3c66a8da X-Archives-Hash: 2300b1e4bcfab4571f1e809f9b66ebf3 Stuart Herbert wrote: >Hi, > >On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:33 -0800, Michael Shaw wrote: > > >>What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for >>something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit. >> >>Thanks, >>Mike >> >> > >I used the php-mode for emacs when I co-wrote the Zend Certification >Study Guide. Unlike vim, emacs actually parses and understands the code >it's editing; this makes the syntax highlighting and indentation support >much more flexible and accurate. I'd go as far as saying that the >auto-indentation support for php-mode for emacs is by far the best I've >worked with to date. > >Today, I use the phpEclipse plugin for Eclipse 3.0. I'm very happy with >this. Performance is very good, the object browser works better than >php-mode for Emacs did, and it's very useful indeed to be able to search >all the files of a project from within the editor. There's also the >advantage of being able to use other Eclipse plugins, such as support >for subversion. phpEclipse is my main environment, which I use a good >8-10 hours in a working day. > >I tried Zend Studio about 18 months ago, but didn't like it. I found >the performance was too slow (hate using software that can't keep up >with my typing!), auto-indenting was inflexible (and I couldn't convince >Zeev why that mattered :(, there was no subversion support, and no >anti-aliased font support (tiring on the eyes when your main machine is >a laptop). I haven't tried Zend Studio 4, and have no idea whether it >has improved in any of these areas or not. > >Can't comment on a good environment for perl. Last time I used perl >seriously was in '96. Things have changed a lot since then. > >Hope that helps, >Stu > > I'll try phpEclipse. I'll peruse the wiki to see if I can get it set up. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list