[wp-hackers] Which editor do you use?

[Diana K. Cury]

>So I suppose Eric wanted to suggest to pick and IDE with good code
>completion. And that *definitely* can be VS or any other editor.

Yes, code completion, also prooject referencing/comments are nice!

> Interesting. It has never even occurred to me not to load entire WP code 
> base into my project, especially since > you can have multiple version 
> control repositories represented in a project.

Never know it could be done, until complain things to my brother and he 
tells me how programming can be done. He's a C/C++ programmer so is used to 
projects, third part code etc.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Urban Hådén" <urban.haden at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Which editor do you use?


> I've been using Ultra Edit for years but PHPStorm sounds interesting..
>
> Greetings
> /Urban
>
>
>
> 2011/10/18 Diana K. Cury <dianakac at gmail.com>
>
>> Thanks everybody!
>>
>> I find vim terrible lol Gonna try out the Phpstorm.
>>
>> Microsoft editors are the best indeed, not sure but... they aren't up to
>> develop anything  for php, since they have asp for choose :( too bad. I 
>> need
>> to use different editors when creating themes and plugins, esp. themes, 
>> as
>> most editors aren't helpful rendering css sometimes, I try everything for
>> save time.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Mann" <eric at eam.me>
>> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.**com <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>>
>> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 6:30 PM
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Which editor do you use?
>>
>>
>>
>>  >
>>>
>>>>  I heard about Visual Studio being the best thing on editing code, not
>>>> sure
>>>> if works nice with php and css tough. Also, some people recommend
>>>> CodeBlocks
>>>> etc
>>>>
>>>>
>>> For the record, I spend 8+ hours per day coding in Visual Studio for my
>>> day
>>> job.  But that's all .Net (C#) development.  For CSS, HTML, XML,
>>> JavaScript,
>>> etc I absolutely love it.  It's a lot better than plan old text editors
>>> because of intellisense (termed "intellicrack" by some of my 
>>> co-workers).
>>> No guessing what methods/properties your objects have.  Fantastic for
>>> working with .Net code, and it's got great extensions for JS, too.
>>>
>>> I actually have jQuery intellisense built right in to the editor.
>>>
>>> For PHP code, though, it's a far cry from perfect.  Microsoft hasn't 
>>> taken
>>> any steps to integrate PHP into the editor, and the third-party tools 
>>> that
>>> *
>>> do* pull in the syntax haven't proven (to me at least) that they're very
>>> mature.  So when I build code for WordPress, I usually switch over to
>>> PhpStorm.
>>>
>>> Like VS, PhpStorm gives you intellisense support, but only for the code
>>> *in
>>> your project*.  So if you want syntactic suggestions for core WP
>>> functionality, you need to load the entire WP codebase in your project 
>>> ...
>>> rather than just loading the plugin or theme you're actively developing.
>>> There might be a workaround or two for this, but I haven't found them 
>>> yet.
>>>
>>> But if you're spending a lot of time working in an IDE, *any IDE*, make
>>> sure
>>> you pick one that enables intellisense.  You'll thank yourself later. 
>>> :-)
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