Coldfusion Editor Recommendation

[yippiekyyay]

Hello Forum,

I'm going to start working with Coldfusion soon (4.0 I think) and was just wondering if anyone had a good recommendation for an editor. One co-worker uses Coldfusion Studio and the other uses Homesite 5 but I am not limited to those two choices (but those are the only two I know of).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

[jdwebster]

I use Dreamweaver MX and am very happy with it!

 

[yippiekyyay]

I had it in my head that Dreamweaver was like frontpage for some reason (a WYSIWYG type editor). I'm gonna try their 30 day trial.

Thanks for answering jdwebster!

 

[noyes99]

We use Allaire Coldfusion Studio. and it seems good enough to me.

 

[wilsonpr]

ok, mayabe I'm an old hack, but I use UltraEdit and load the language for Cold Fusion. UltraEdit is a text editor that will edit just about anything and has a great price.

http://www.ultraedit.com

 

[SidianConsulting]

I really like ultra-edit, I use CF Studio 4.5.2 sp1 (the last before Studio 5), and if you are used to smaller apps that aren't bloated all to hell, stay away from Dreamweaver MX. I really didn't care for it, but hopefully the next release will be more efficient memory- and speed-wise.

By all means, though, play with DWMX and anything else you can get your hands on as far as editors go. I downloaded coffeecup html editor the other day just to play around, and it's a nice program for $49.99. It even color-codes cfml! In addition, the editor window looks STRANGELY like Studio's/Homesite's

-Tek

 

[csteinhilber]

I've used ColdFusion Studio for forever... then recently switched to HomeSite 5.0 because of the double file panes.

DreamWeaver MX can be a WYSIWYG editor... that's it's main mode of operation. But with (a great deal of) configuring (actually... it's not that much) you can make it operate (and look) just like HomeSite (in fact, it IS HomeSite). Of course, you still have all the bloat behind it of all the WYSIWYG code that you're not even using... so if you're just using it for that, it's probably not worth the trouble.

Haven't played with Coffecup at all... but there's another one called FirstPage, I think, that sounds pretty similar. Last I checked, it was free. Had modules for CFML, PHP, ASP... just about anything you might want to code in.
Hope it helps,
-Carl

 

[aarontra]

I use EditPlus 2.11 and it works good.

http://www.editplus.com/

Aaron

 

[imstillatwork]

i like cfstudio 5

 

[BigBadDave]

Textpad is the best:

http://www.textpad.com

(if you like a text editor) Regards
David Byng

http://www.byngdesigns.co.uk

davidbyng@hotmail.com