Notepad Editing (Word Wrap)

wolfhard · Post by **wolfhard** » 05 Sep 2005, 19:45

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Whenever I try to edit a *.php file with Notepad on Windows 2003 I don't get a nice layout ..

whether I have Word Wrap on or off ... does not change a thing .. if I paste the code into this forum it looks great however :-)

I have little squares in the code layout (TABs).

What can I do? Use a different Editor? Which one?

Kind regards
Wolfhard Aring

atomoid · Post by **atomoid** » 07 Sep 2005, 19:35

ive got all sorts of text editors instaleld, but find i usually decide id rather launch TextPad http://www.textpad.com/ since its ui workflow is set up nicely. i never had any such wordwrap problems with it and its got a toolbar button to toggle wrap easily, you can also set up its syntax coloring per file type and you can set it up fairly easily to link to the compiler for testing code.

it works indefinately for free but if you dont pay its got a nag screen for several seconds when you launch it or save a document.

Narcissus · Post by **Narcissus** » 07 Sep 2005, 23:52

I was always under the impression that those figures (and the fact that you're not getting a new line) is because the file is using Unix line ends as opposed to Windows.

Anyway, as for choice of editor... it may seem overkill, but I can't go past the Eclipse editor, with the PHPEclipse plugin. I find it really suits my way of developing nicely...

atomoid · Post by **atomoid** » 07 Sep 2005, 23:59

My text editor is set up to write PC type files. Although i can set it to Unix or Mac if i like. yep, thats probably whats going on for the originator of this thread, i never had to set it to anything other than PC, and if i bring these files over to Unix i dodnt see any problem there either.
Now i think ill try out Eclipse. Ive heard a lot of good things about it.