Best text editor?

Soldato
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Hi, I'm looking for a text editor which has these features:

Connects straight to a FTP server to edit files on there
PHP coloured text
Tabbed thing to edit more than one at once

Does anyone know of one that can do this, or recommend a good text editor?

Cheers
 
notepad++. Doesn't connect to FTP, but meh. If SFTP is available then you can set up winSCP to edit files in np++ and auto upload on save.
 
I like vim, syntax highlighting, tabbed, can run it through ssh then you got no need to upload etc...
 
The closest thing to what you want is PSPad I think, especially for the FTP part. I used to use it, but find Notepad++ a bit more lightweight. Just a shame it doesn't handle FTP like PSPad does!

Matt
 
Inferno99 said:
Ultraedit. Been using it for over a decade now. :cool:

I got this from a site obsessed with pirate ships and it is actually the best text editor I've used!

Thanks everyone.
 
I use Programmers notepad for notepad with different highlighting options (including C, php, html etc.). It is quite lightweight but doesnt have direct ftp.

The closest i get that i use very frequently is to set up Smart FTP and set it up so that the default editor is set to PN, then i can edit files directly from the directory structure.

Not as easy as one complete package but it does what i want so i'm happy, hope this helps
 
Dfhaii said:
Vim here, just ssh to the box your kelt is running on and away you go, no need for mucking about with ftp/scp.
Although that said, it has built in support for ftp, cvs and subversion. :)
 
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