Ali
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Tuesday, Oct 02, 2007 17:41
Dreamweaver takes up too much space..
is there an alternative? 
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Rob
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Tuesday, Oct 02, 2007 19:12
Dreamweaver sucks ass anyway
Notepad?
You can get $700 worth of coffee cup software when you sign up to lunarpages hosting (google it)
personally I use the free trial version of PHP Designer which is just notepad but with the ability to search by line and highlighted tags to make for easier reading.
I think it comes with some other stuff to, like code templates, or that might be only in the full version I haven't really fiddled with it.
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PutzMan123
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Tuesday, Oct 02, 2007 19:36
Notepad++ - Myself and Caley both use it - I thank him :P
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Rob
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Tuesday, Oct 02, 2007 21:27
What's Notepad++ got over something like php designer?
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PutzMan123
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Tuesday, Oct 02, 2007 21:30
Nothing - But I dont like PHP Designer - I used it - hated it - uninstalled it
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Rob
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Tuesday, Oct 02, 2007 23:14
what was wrong with it 
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Caleyjag
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Wednesday, Oct 03, 2007 08:55
Notepad++ by a country mile, it highlights opening and closing tags, does line numbers, generally a great bit of kit.
I normally use Notepad for coding, then Notepad++ for checking for errors.
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Rob
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Wednesday, Oct 03, 2007 10:57
That's basically what PHP Designer does, accept a bit more than just opening and closing tags and you can change what type you're looking at and thus what's highlighted such as css/php/html/javascript etc, or multi, which will differentiate between everything in quite a slick style.
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Caleyjag
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Thursday, Oct 04, 2007 08:46
Notepad++ does that too, although I don't think all in the same file (like having some php, then javascript in same file, it highlights them in the same sort of way I think. To do it differently you need to tell ++ what coding format you are using.)
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Rob
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Thursday, Oct 04, 2007 12:23
yeah same, cept it's all done really smoothly with instant loading tabs, dunno if notepad++ does that, does ++ have tabs for having lots of different files open at the same time as well?
The one thing PHP Designer is comparing to files, I always make backups but sometimes I can't remember what it was I changed, so i'd love to compare two files and see that lines 27 83 and 127 are different for instant, but alas I haven't found anything that can do that yet 
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Caleyjag
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Thursday, Oct 04, 2007 14:05
++ has tabs yeah.
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cravingtears
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Thursday, Oct 04, 2007 23:47
Wordpad/Notepad ftw.
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The_Ripper
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Location: Houston, TX
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Saturday, Oct 06, 2007 20:16
Caleyjag
Notepad++ by a country mile, it highlights opening and closing tags, does line numbers, generally a great bit of kit.
I normally use Notepad for coding, then Notepad++ for checking for errors.
Great suggestion; I will have to try this out.
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Ali
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Sunday, Oct 07, 2007 12:26
Thanks for suggestions. 
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Gaz
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Sunday, Nov 11, 2007 19:13
Caleyjag
Notepad++ by a country mile, it highlights opening and closing tags, does line numbers, generally a great bit of kit.
I normally use Notepad for coding, then Notepad++ for checking for errors.
Sounds alot like Pspad, which I've been using for a long time now and I love it personally
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Caleyjag
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Sunday, Nov 11, 2007 19:28
Yeah, sounds like the same sort of idea.
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Rob
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Monday, Nov 12, 2007 13:41
That does look nice, I like the integrated into ftp thing I don't have that on mine, but I was a bit confused as to the css, does it support css or do you need the plugin to add the "TopStyle CSS editor"? And does it integrate nicely, also does it include xml, javscript etc not just html and php?
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Barabus
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Thursday, Feb 07, 2008 10:49
Best free code editor is Eclipse
Has many features and excellent interface... really good editor
Make sure you get the PHP Development version though since there are many flavours due to massive open source support
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