What is the best text editor for web development? [closed]

Answer 1

Aptana is a good one.

Six free alternatives to Dreamweaver.

Answer 2

I agree textmate is great for MAC, yet so is BBEDIT lots of nice features plus with HTML tidy it can clean up and validate your code.

Also a nice all in one would be Espresso its a combination of dreamweaver, textmate, cssedit, with ftp publishing tools. Code hinting and more. With some nice skins and nice plugins.

Answer 3

I don't want to appear as 'the vim freak', but that's what I use and recommend. Incredibly powerful once you master search-replace, regexes, macros and commands.

Answer 4

Sure, there are plenty of text editors & FTP clients available for free. If you like Notepad++ as an editor, keep it and look for a replacement FTP client.

My Mac recommendation for web dev is Coda, which is an editor and ftp client together.

Answer 5

Textpad is really great, though no Unicode support (boo!)