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Re: Hardware/OS Geek Thread
« Reply #250: October 20, 2009, 04:02:21 AM »
The Editor (as opposed to IDE) version of Komodo is free and you may want to take a look at it as well.  

http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/features/

One of the things I like best about Komodo is that in the call-checking, it also provides hints for user-defined functions/methods.  This is true both in the editor and ide.  So, if for example, you've linked in an external user-defined library, such as php or javascript or php, and you call one of those user-defined functions, it will prompt you for the function name as you type, and then as you enter each parameter.  When we converted all of our web apps to object oriented a few years ago, this feature alone made the transition quick and smooth, and undoubtedly saved literally thousands of man hours.  Also, being able to browse in a separate frame, tab, or both (user choice) without having to flip in an out of the editor to and from the browser is nice.

It also supports Ruby and other OO languages, and uses Firefox style extensions.

Available for Linux, OS X, and Windows