Hi, can someone tell me a good software for hand coding just like with Dreamweaver will hi light codes and auto complete if possible? DW is terrible slow when opening xml or other text files which are several megabytes in size. I used mostly for coding or text replacing like: $uiMsgLabels['244'] = "Error while editing Replication Configuration."; The software would only mark the text in the " " visually for a better editing. DW does this wit PHP code but not with other code. The auto complete for certain language like PHP and HTML would be a huge plus but im happy if at least it can visually show the code and the syntax and if its fast, like it doesnt take to much to open. I use BeyondCompare now because it opens my files just very fast without freezing like DW does but this of course is not made for editing but for change mergers. I dont mind if its paid. Thanks guys.
If you are using Windows, try Notepad++ or Textpad. I think they are one of the best free code editors out there. If you are willing to spend some money, I would suggest UltraEdit, which in my opinion is the best editor ever made. Don't use Dreamweaver, it's extremely slow and it's for beginners in web programming.
Yes im on Windows. I did tried Ultraedit, price is ok but I found it bit slow opening. I mean it takes a while to open a few seconds compared to notepad from windows, which I found a bit tedious if you are opening files all the time. I also could not really see the benefits of it highlight code, maybe I did not had it setup correctly but I dont think it helped me in programming at all. Is there something similar to Ultraedit? Or should I give it a second try, maybe it was to complicated to me so I did not appreciated what it had but to be honest I did not gave it to much time either. And I do consider myself a newbie programmer. I can not code anything from head anyway, I still use examples all the time but something like this could for sure help me out to understand the code better.