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anybody use this on a consistent basis?

i'm taking it for a test spin ... it's greatly improved since last time i looked at it (1.5 years ago)

likes?

dislikes?

i'm still fumbling around learning things like turning on auto-completion
notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

i tend to like it.

my big dislike is that out of the box it doesn't recognize jsp files. huge downside for me since everything i'm doing now is in jsp.

otherwise, i like it a good bit.

is there a shortcut for <br>
is there a shortcut for <!-- -->
i started trying to figure out how to get autocompletion to work, but it was too much digging around and i've been in kinda a rush ... just for closing div tags and the like, is that native? or does that require some add on

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Coda has become my favourite tool for developing websites. its got everything i want, code hints, code snippets, a live-edit Bonjour feature where i can share my files with people on my network who can edit my code live from their computer. Plus its super lightweight and has a built in browser for previewing.

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i'm pretty partial to textmate on the mac. vi other wise.

vi - ewwwwwww too many keystrokes to do anything.

i hate the mouse

no need for a mouse in notepad ++ either

E Text Editor / Cygwin on Windows
Textmate on OSX
vi/kate on Kubuntu (though am usually just doing quick edits)

but you have to have windows. most of my stuff is linux. plus i actually like vi. it took me a few years to get used to it when i had no other option but i enjoy it now. the keystrokes become second nature pretty quick. it's also really configurable. it's convenient having your configuration in a text file when you have to work on different machines all the time too. i keep mine on my webserver so when i work on another machine i can just grab the file and all my settings are all ready to go.

i am growing more partial to textmate everyday that i work on a mac though. if they had a linux version i would probably use it most of the time.

I still think Homesite is the best text editor ever for Windows. It had a lot of functionality to where you could really make use of its libraries and resources if you wanted to, but it was also a fantastic plain text editor as well.

I was really sad when I started using a Mac full time and couldn't find a suitable Homesite replacement (and anybody who mentions the DW word will cease to be my online friend). I played with BBEdit for awhile and hated everything about it.

I've been using TextMate for a few years now, and I'm back in love.

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Is e-text editor as good as textmate?

It's the closest you'll get on Windows but not without its minor caveats. (hella fast dev cycle though - most bugs ironed out quickly)

I've been using Eclipse with either the Web Tools Project plugin, or Aptana as a plugin.

They're both very powerful, sure, Eclipse runs with a Java VM, but once you've got it open it's plenty fast, and you can do so much so quickly, I don't see the point in using basic text editors to create web projects, it makes more work for me.