Choice of Editor/IDE for Web Development?

[FreelanceSoftwareDeveloper]

I've been using Netbeans for a few months now but it's starting to annoy me a bit so thinking of trying something different. The biggest annoyance is getting stuck with the auto-suggest open and having to press ESC then Left Arrow to get out of quotes. It can be handy though with hex colours for example in the CSS files.

I switched to Netbeans from Notepad++ because of the Project Tree as I tend to switch between files quite a lot so would want to use something with a full file tree.

I'm thinking of trying Komodo Edit? Don't really want anything based on Eclipse so Aptana is out. I have a full licence of Microsoft Expression 4 but i'm not sure I want to go down that route even though the Visual Studio IDEs are great.

I pretty much only do bespoke PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript(JQuery) from scratch.

 

[faradaykeynes]

hummm nice advert

 

[josegrad]

Hi, windows or mac?

I currently use Textmate even though 98% of the features it has I don' use. I do Rails development. But I'm on Mac.

I've used MacVim but run into performance issues, the editor was slow...

 

[FreelanceSoftwareDeveloper]

For PC. Not a fan of Macs

 

[josegrad]

Oops can't help much. I used to be like you and I think I was using Notepad++ but I don't remember anymore. I changed to Mac two years ago and wont ever look back Specially good for development.

 

[cmcp]

Notepad++.

 

[mit74]

Dreamweaver for the autocomplete/suggestion boxes when coding html/css/javascript (forget all the other fancy bloat that comes with it) and eclipse php when mainly php coding. The debug tools like xdebug with eclipse are excellent if you can get them running and almost essential when debug other peoples code.

 

[Chunkford]

Have you looked at the plugins for notepad++?
You maybe able to mould it into what you want.

 

[terryuk]

Smultron on Mac or Notepad for me personally

Just re-read and no idea about windows