v basic editor with hightlighting & FTP ?

[VisionsOfCody]

Hi
i'm looking for a very basic php editor - ideally the perfect editor would be like notepad2 with colour highlighting and 2 ftp windows down one side for local and remote files - a sort of hybrid of notepad and FileZilla

does this exist ?

I've looked at a fair number of editors in the past few days - and tried a few - but they all have too many bells & whistles

does anyone gave a suggestion ?

thanks

[cahva]

Check out jEdit (http://www.jedit.org). I used this one year or two ago and its quite nice. Theres FTP plugin for loading and saving files.

[VisionsOfCody]

thanks for your reply

well - it does look pretty nice but still too much stuff, lol

I'm really looking for something as simple as in the attached image - the image is Notepad and FileZilla side by side - but 1 application instead of 2

maybe its just a pipe dream ...

[NogDog]

If you're on Windows, I use HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/download/), which is freeware. They also have a new version called "HTML-Kit Tools" which requires registration (and which I have not tried, so can't comment on). Also, if you search this "Echo Lounge" forum, you'll find a large thread all about PHP editors (probably with too many choices ;) ).

[VisionsOfCody]

Lol - yes I had a look at that thread before and tried a few of the editors - one i tried was in fact HTML-kit which seemed pretty good but still too much stuff in there - I did like the file management workspace thing but couldn't manage to make just a simple default xhtml strict page template (following the instructions on their help site) and gave up - this is kind of the reason why i'm looking for something REALLY simple

when i get more time maybe I'll get HTML-kit back up on the table and have another go at it as it did seem to be quite close to my ideal editor

thanks

[stolzyboy]

notepad ++ is pretty nice and light

[cahva]

Yeah Notepad++ is very good and I myself use it but it still lacks the ftp :)

[VisionsOfCody]

i haven't tried Notepad++, but I will

wouldn't it be great if someone put out a really basic Notepad clone with a ton of plugins for all the different functions so you can pick and choose

[stolzyboy]

i don't fully read theads, lol... i like having ftp as a separate proggy, i use Flash FXP for that :)

[Weedpacket]

Zawinski's Law of software envelopment applies here, I think.

i like having ftp as a separate proggyYou can run two programs at once?! You mean, like hit "save" in the text editor and then hit "upload" in the ftp client?!

[stolzyboy]

yeah... and you can EVEN alt-tab or alt-whatever, depending on OS to get from one to the other :)