Welcome!

[Linda]

I've been using Windows Server 2000 and Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation server for quite a while. I love visual studio. In particular I really really love this nice feature that when yo click on a </div> tag it finds and highltights the opening div (or vice verca). There are many other things I love but that one feature I just don't want to loose...

Now - I'm gonna be developing some cms stuff (mostly php but also xml, xhtml and css) with a backend developer who uses Ubuntu. And he tells me there is no way we can share code using visual studio. Fair enough.
I have no idea how these things work...

So what editor could you reccomend me, that we can have on both linux and Windows Server that makes development and sharing code/working on the same code at the same time easier?

[Linda]

nobody ever had to do this before?

[Andy]

Well, you could have your cake and eat it.

Make your Ubuntu friend install a Subversion server and each of you could code in the editor of your own choosing.

As an option you could also download a SVN plugin for Visual Studio so you wouldn't have to rely on a third-party application to commit your changes to the server. There are a few to choose from (a quick google search reveals ankhsvn).

[diana~]

If you're looking at the same code, why is it not possible to use different editors?

But. Geany works on Ubuntu and Windows, and has those nifty features you'd want. Hope that helps~ It might not. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "at the same time".

[Linda]

If you're looking at the same code, why is it not possible to use different editors?

But. Geany works on Ubuntu and Windows, and has those nifty features you'd want. Hope that helps~ It might not. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "at the same time".

by that I mean we both work on the same file, and when we submit the changes the software should merge the changes, alert if there are conflicts etc? Like, we could bo be working on "basic.css" at the same time, I wouldn't have to check in the file for him to work on it?

[Andy]

by that I mean we both work on the same file, and when we submit the changes the software should merge the changes, alert if there are conflicts etc? Like, we could bo be working on "basic.css" at the same time, I wouldn't have to check in the file for him to work on it?

Which is the very definition of a version control system, which Subversion happens to be.

[Parallax]

Yeah, you want subversion.

[nikhil_ smashing]

Hi,

U can use Dreamweaver.Its industry standard software for coding use.It has many inbuilt functions as well.Its good.

[jm.toball]

I am unsure if Dreamweaver meets the requirement of running on Linux so well It is also quite expensive considering the good alternatives available.
I think he is well off with sharing the code via svn, which is also not natively supported by dreamweaver as far as I remember

[josedaniel]

You should try Notepad++ or Eclipse

[Rendian]

On windows, for me PSPad is the one. Very fast, lightweight, and customizable.
But if you want a more advance route, try Aptana.

[antpaw]

Mac osx -> TextMate -> you = very happy

[josedaniel]

Mac osx -> TextMate -> you = very happy