Symphony.

One to keep an eye on: Sublime Text

anyone using xcode? so obvious you forget it...

One to keep an eye on: Sublime Text

Looks very interesting. Thanks, Craig.

There is a great read on the search/need for a macosx texteditor over here. Since textmate feels abandonware, and espresso had some quirks(anyone using a recent version ?), I am thinking of simply starting a new with textwrangler, free in the mac app store...

am i going to have to be the asshole that suggests gvim? :)

no, really, i've heard super things about textwrangler from another mac friend. however, since i develop on too many different machines and os's (who's the nomad now?), i made the excruciating but rewarding switch to vim 2 months ago.

i made the excruciating but rewarding switch to vim 2 months ago.

That doesn't sound fun at all.

I know TextMate feels like abandonware but have yet to find a better editor for my needs on OSX. Although not updated much it works great. The only gripe I have is that it's not too happy with really large files or files with really long lines (such as minified JS).

I'll take a look at the XSL bundles/plugin's I have not yet used those.

Anyway, many of my dev friends swear by Vim but I have not felt the need to move away from TextMate.

but I have not felt the need to move away from TextMate

Yeah nor I. "Abandonware" doesn't bother me if the app is still equal or superior to others in its class.

For DB management, anyone has used navicat for mysql lite? Its just a port, but from a specialist company. Whereas sequel pro is mac build, but also been silent for a year.

If anyone want to try textwrangler, just don't get it from the appstore, thats a crippled version that can't work with unix system files (like httpd.conf)

textwrangler

If you are intersted in this, go ahead and try/buy BBEdit. I have a license since a long time, and I swear that I bought every single update because those guys are doing such a fantastic job with this.

I rarely use it, however, because I like TextMate's approach so much. But as @davidhund points out regarding TextMate:

The only gripe I have is that it's not too happy with really large files or files with really long lines (such as minified JS).

This is one occasion when I switch to BBEdit. Another one is comparing files or folders -- BBEdit's interface for this is so great!

Whereas sequel pro is mac build, but also been silent for a year.

Not completely true, if you opt in for nightly releases they are actually pretty active in development (at least one update a week), they just seem to be working hard to get 1.0 'right'.

but I have not felt the need to move away from TextMate

Thirded

Whereas sequel pro is mac build, but also been silent for a year

I honestly don't find that a problem. I don't change MySQL clients from year to year, so if an update isn't issued for many months it never crosses my mind.

Anyway, back to text editors and Symphony workflow! ;-)

OK so after Nick's setup and reading this clear feature overview I am tempted to go with textmate too. @Nickdunn would you care to share where you got your xslt bundle? Is it thisone. And any other tips for xslt use, like this processor, or xslmate?

I see version 2 of espresso recently got announced(I guess they finished university and have more time now). Still no sign of a sugar for xslt autocomplete, and processing, but let's hope they come through in the 2.0 release soon. I sent them a headup

Just throwing the open source Komodo Edit up here in case anyone hasn't already come across it. It supports PHP, XML and XSLT, and is available for Mac OS, Linux and Windows.

Komodo IDE (paid) supports XSLT debugging.

would you care to share where you got your xslt bundle?

From a Wordpress blog that has since disappeared. I might be the same as the one on Github, I have no idea. It's attached if you want to try it.

Attachments:

XSLT.zip

@DavidOliver
Komodo looks interesting in that it has xslt support out of the box, no need for a bundle. Anyone actively using it, and created xsl code snippets for it? I found an interesting screencast and articlecomparing it to textmate.

OT the webbased xml editor xopus looks interesting, but we already have that out of the box in symphony back-end, or not?

I'm a Komodo user, IDE for me. It can be a bit flaky, so the price tag is a little cheeky, but the Edit version is good and can be modified using macros to mimic the IDE functionality.

There's support for many languages. The IDE has lots of code formatters included, but the Edit version lets you run these from command line if you set up a macro to do so.

It's very good though, I only just touch the surface of it's capabilities...

I'm using Netbeans IDE. Never really liked Eclypse. Netbeans is a free crossplatform Application written in java. There are a bunch of pre-bundled packages available (php, C++, etc.).

What I really like is the built in "versioning control" via a local history. There a many plugins available, it is git capable ( available as plugin, svn and mercurial are built in)

I'm doing most of my javascript development with it, since it has a pretty good error handling

Some points I really don't want to miss anymore (from a webdesigner's perspective) - Zen Coding - LESS css - Built in Terminal Emulator - Support for many Languages - Very good error handling

Espresso 2 is amazing.

Vim is amazing :)

Switched from Netbeans half year ago. Best editor around. There's almost nothing vim couldn't handle.

textmate is alive again...