Comments on: Aptana IDE: Is it the text editor you’ve been looking for? http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/ A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-88179 David Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:16:30 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-88179 Thanks for the advice! I saw a tutorial on html coding on Youtube where the young fellow was using Dreamweaver, and it made me realize something: I LOVE CODE HINTS!!! I'm just starting out with coding and I am eager to get my site looking pleasant to the eye because I feel I have a lot of important things to say. I think this will be exactly what the doctor ordered. Thanks for the review! David. Thanks for the advice!

I saw a tutorial on html coding on Youtube where the young fellow was using Dreamweaver, and it made me realize something:

I LOVE CODE HINTS!!!

I’m just starting out with coding and I am eager to get my site looking pleasant to the eye because I feel I have a lot of important things to say.

I think this will be exactly what the doctor ordered.

Thanks for the review!

David.

]]> By: David http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-92735 David Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:16:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-92735 Thanks for the advice! I saw a tutorial on html coding on Youtube where the young fellow was using Dreamweaver, and it made me realize something: I LOVE CODE HINTS!!! I'm just starting out with coding and I am eager to get my site looking pleasant to the eye because I feel I have a lot of important things to say. I think this will be exactly what the doctor ordered. Thanks for the review! David. Thanks for the advice!

I saw a tutorial on html coding on Youtube where the young fellow was using Dreamweaver, and it made me realize something:

I LOVE CODE HINTS!!!

I’m just starting out with coding and I am eager to get my site looking pleasant to the eye because I feel I have a lot of important things to say.

I think this will be exactly what the doctor ordered.

Thanks for the review!

David.

]]> By: Nicholas Stone-Johnson http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-88095 Nicholas Stone-Johnson Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:58:33 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-88095 I'm evaluating this at the moment for my company Heavenly Media. Some features I'm finding totally invaluable are: 1. The great subversion support through subclipse, it just works really well, as good as tortoise. 2. The Database browser, it apparently found all my databases by inspecting my yml. I can open a database view in a tab and make changes on the fly. Ctrl s writes the changes just as though the database was a file. 3. Error highlighting. Syntax errors are underlined and theres a view which shows all the errors in the project in a single list. Double click to go fix. 4. The genuinely useful code completion. Code completion can often be irritating. This gets it right and gives the most common completions first. Features I'm liking less are: The editor still feels a little clunky, I'm used to jedit which is sublime as an editor and I'm missing some of the features, eg the easy multi pane splitting and the block level editing. You can split panes but it's a little awkward to do. That said I'm still finding new features so probably this will soon be second nature. I’m evaluating this at the moment for my company Heavenly Media. Some features I’m finding totally invaluable are:

1. The great subversion support through subclipse, it just works really well, as good as tortoise.

2. The Database browser, it apparently found all my databases by inspecting my yml. I can open a database view in a tab and make changes on the fly. Ctrl s writes the changes just as though the database was a file.

3. Error highlighting. Syntax errors are underlined and theres a view which shows all the errors in the project in a single list. Double click to go fix.

4. The genuinely useful code completion. Code completion can often be irritating. This gets it right and gives the most common completions first.

Features I’m liking less are: The editor still feels a little clunky, I’m used to jedit which is sublime as an editor and I’m missing some of the features, eg the easy multi pane splitting and the block level editing. You can split panes but it’s a little awkward to do. That said I’m still finding new features so probably this will soon be second nature.

]]> By: Nicholas Stone-Johnson http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-92734 Nicholas Stone-Johnson Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:58:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-92734 I'm evaluating this at the moment for my company Heavenly Media. Some features I'm finding totally invaluable are: 1. The great subversion support through subclipse, it just works really well, as good as tortoise. 2. The Database browser, it apparently found all my databases by inspecting my yml. I can open a database view in a tab and make changes on the fly. Ctrl s writes the changes just as though the database was a file. 3. Error highlighting. Syntax errors are underlined and theres a view which shows all the errors in the project in a single list. Double click to go fix. 4. The genuinely useful code completion. Code completion can often be irritating. This gets it right and gives the most common completions first. Features I'm liking less are: The editor still feels a little clunky, I'm used to jedit which is sublime as an editor and I'm missing some of the features, eg the easy multi pane splitting and the block level editing. You can split panes but it's a little awkward to do. That said I'm still finding new features so probably this will soon be second nature. I’m evaluating this at the moment for my company Heavenly Media. Some features I’m finding totally invaluable are:

1. The great subversion support through subclipse, it just works really well, as good as tortoise.

2. The Database browser, it apparently found all my databases by inspecting my yml. I can open a database view in a tab and make changes on the fly. Ctrl s writes the changes just as though the database was a file.

3. Error highlighting. Syntax errors are underlined and theres a view which shows all the errors in the project in a single list. Double click to go fix.

4. The genuinely useful code completion. Code completion can often be irritating. This gets it right and gives the most common completions first.

Features I’m liking less are: The editor still feels a little clunky, I’m used to jedit which is sublime as an editor and I’m missing some of the features, eg the easy multi pane splitting and the block level editing. You can split panes but it’s a little awkward to do. That said I’m still finding new features so probably this will soon be second nature.

]]> By: Michelle Petersen http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-17681 Michelle Petersen Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:30:59 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-17681 Thanks for the update, Tiffany! If you're able to reproduce the innerHTML bug, let us know, and we'll try to figure out what's going on. --Michelle Aptana Thanks for the update, Tiffany! If you’re able to reproduce the innerHTML bug, let us know, and we’ll try to figure out what’s going on.

–Michelle
Aptana

]]> By: Michelle Petersen http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-92733 Michelle Petersen Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:30:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-92733 Thanks for the update, Tiffany! If you're able to reproduce the innerHTML bug, let us know, and we'll try to figure out what's going on. --Michelle Aptana Thanks for the update, Tiffany! If you’re able to reproduce the innerHTML bug, let us know, and we’ll try to figure out what’s going on.

–Michelle
Aptana

]]> By: M-Solo http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-17319 M-Solo Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:56:06 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-17319 Gotta respect the love your getting from the good folks at Aptana. Gotta respect the love your getting from the good folks at Aptana.

]]> By: M-Solo http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-92732 M-Solo Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:56:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-92732 Gotta respect the love your getting from the good folks at Aptana. Gotta respect the love your getting from the good folks at Aptana.

]]> By: Rashid Z. Muhammad http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-17020 Rashid Z. Muhammad Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:30:41 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-17020 "Interface is a little bit busy. Lots of panels and panes. Not an interface native to Windows or Mac." This is one of my peeves against Eclipse in general. “Interface is a little bit busy. Lots of panels and panes. Not an interface native to Windows or Mac.”

This is one of my peeves against Eclipse in general.

]]> By: Rashid Z. Muhammad http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-92731 Rashid Z. Muhammad Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:30:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-92731 "Interface is a little bit busy. Lots of panels and panes. Not an interface native to Windows or Mac." This is one of my peeves against Eclipse in general. “Interface is a little bit busy. Lots of panels and panes. Not an interface native to Windows or Mac.”

This is one of my peeves against Eclipse in general.

]]> By: tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-17006 tiffany Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:41:54 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-17006 I use TextWrangler too, but I miss some of the fuller features of BBEdit. That's a big reason why I use <a href="http://www.jedit.org/" rel="nofollow">jEdit</a> and Aptana. jEdit allows me to save code samples and templates. Aptana has Code Assist and tag/bracket/quote balancing. If Aptana had support for server-side languages, I'd probably use it exclusively. Anything that saves me typing is gold. Anything that is also free is platinum. <a href="http://chami.com/html-kit/" rel="nofollow">HTML-Kit</a> is the best free editor I've ever used; if my antivirus software hadn't <a href="http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/17/text-editors-and-ides/" rel="nofollow">detected a buffer overflow</a>, I would have stuck with that (at least on my Windows box). I lean towards cross-platform applications, though, because there are fewer keystrokes and menu commands to remember. It's why I still favor Firefox on my Mac at home and at work, despite the fact that Camino and Safari perform much better on that platform. (Plus Firefox + Firebug + the Web Developer Extension + ColorZilla + MeasureIt = amazing development environment.) I use TextWrangler too, but I miss some of the fuller features of BBEdit. That’s a big reason why I use jEdit and Aptana. jEdit allows me to save code samples and templates. Aptana has Code Assist and tag/bracket/quote balancing. If Aptana had support for server-side languages, I’d probably use it exclusively. Anything that saves me typing is gold. Anything that is also free is platinum.

HTML-Kit is the best free editor I’ve ever used; if my antivirus software hadn’t detected a buffer overflow, I would have stuck with that (at least on my Windows box).

I lean towards cross-platform applications, though, because there are fewer keystrokes and menu commands to remember. It’s why I still favor Firefox on my Mac at home and at work, despite the fact that Camino and Safari perform much better on that platform. (Plus Firefox + Firebug + the Web Developer Extension + ColorZilla + MeasureIt = amazing development environment.)

]]> By: tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-92730 tiffany Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:41:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-92730 I use TextWrangler too, but I miss some of the fuller features of BBEdit. That's a big reason why I use <a href="http://www.jedit.org/" rel="nofollow">jEdit</a> and Aptana. jEdit allows me to save code samples and templates. Aptana has Code Assist and tag/bracket/quote balancing. If Aptana had support for server-side languages, I'd probably use it exclusively. Anything that saves me typing is gold. Anything that is also free is platinum. <a href="http://chami.com/html-kit/" rel="nofollow">HTML-Kit</a> is the best free editor I've ever used; if my antivirus software hadn't <a href="http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/05/17/text-editors-and-ides/" rel="nofollow">detected a buffer overflow</a>, I would have stuck with that (at least on my Windows box). I lean towards cross-platform applications, though, because there are fewer keystrokes and menu commands to remember. It's why I still favor Firefox on my Mac at home and at work, despite the fact that Camino and Safari perform much better on that platform. (Plus Firefox + Firebug + the Web Developer Extension + ColorZilla + MeasureIt = amazing development environment.) I use TextWrangler too, but I miss some of the fuller features of BBEdit. That’s a big reason why I use jEdit and Aptana. jEdit allows me to save code samples and templates. Aptana has Code Assist and tag/bracket/quote balancing. If Aptana had support for server-side languages, I’d probably use it exclusively. Anything that saves me typing is gold. Anything that is also free is platinum.

HTML-Kit is the best free editor I’ve ever used; if my antivirus software hadn’t detected a buffer overflow, I would have stuck with that (at least on my Windows box).

I lean towards cross-platform applications, though, because there are fewer keystrokes and menu commands to remember. It’s why I still favor Firefox on my Mac at home and at work, despite the fact that Camino and Safari perform much better on that platform. (Plus Firefox + Firebug + the Web Developer Extension + ColorZilla + MeasureIt = amazing development environment.)

]]> By: Frank 'viperteq' Young http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-16913 Frank 'viperteq' Young Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:39:51 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-16913 If Macromates made a lite version of TextMate that just offered HTML/CSS/PHP syntaxing, I'd get that instead!! If you like BBEdit, you might wanna check out their free version <a href="http://barebones.com/products/textwrangler/" rel="nofollow">TextWrangler</a>. If Macromates made a lite version of TextMate that just offered HTML/CSS/PHP syntaxing, I’d get that instead!! If you like BBEdit, you might wanna check out their free version TextWrangler.

]]> By: Frank 'viperteq' Young http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-92729 Frank 'viperteq' Young Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:39:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-92729 If Macromates made a lite version of TextMate that just offered HTML/CSS/PHP syntaxing, I'd get that instead!! If you like BBEdit, you might wanna check out their free version <a href="http://barebones.com/products/textwrangler/" rel="nofollow">TextWrangler</a>. If Macromates made a lite version of TextMate that just offered HTML/CSS/PHP syntaxing, I’d get that instead!! If you like BBEdit, you might wanna check out their free version TextWrangler.

]]> By: tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-16905 tiffany Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:33:10 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/01/17/aptana-text-editor-ide-free-open-source/#comment-16905 @Michelle, innerHTML doesn't always pop up in Code Assist. I just tried it and I see that it's there now. I'm not sure whether it was my eyes or my code that kept it from appearing before :-). I'll try to reproduce it and leave a comment on the Trac ticket one way or the other. @Frank: I tried TextMate, but didn't like it. I forgot exactly why but I didn't want to go back. It may have been the price :-). If I did more freelance work, I'd probably just shell out the cash for BBEdit instead. @Michelle, innerHTML doesn’t always pop up in Code Assist. I just tried it and I see that it’s there now. I’m not sure whether it was my eyes or my code that kept it from appearing before :-) .

I’ll try to reproduce it and leave a comment on the Trac ticket one way or the other.

@Frank: I tried TextMate, but didn’t like it. I forgot exactly why but I didn’t want to go back. It may have been the price :-) . If I did more freelance work, I’d probably just shell out the cash for BBEdit instead.

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