Line numbering is part of the whole reason they're better than notepad...

try homesite - it has syntax highlighting/checking for php and you can do search (& replace) even for multiple files in one step (selected files, all files in a dir including subdirs etc.)

I would have to say that without Line Numbering, the program is worthless to me. That is an essential feature.

yeah ultraedit sucks! LOL, I will stick to textpad for me thanks :D

Home site is pretty cool, but the search and replace box is a little limited. It only displays one line.

PHP Coder Pro! (free) also supports search and replace functions while giving you two options. A single line search/replace, and an option called extended replace.

You can check it out here

Edit Plus 2, I asked this earlier on sitepoint, and got a lot of responses, I use this exclusivly now.

http://www.editplus.com/

One last one

Notetab is a pretty decent text editor

http://www.notetab.com

I use Textpad for most things. Scribbler 2000 for others
but i ran across MPS....They have editors for everything it seems.

Go check them out at http://mps.uoe.org/mps_php.htm

has anyone tried Scriptworx?

http://www.softlite.net/products/scriptworx/

i've just downloaded it but haven't had time to try it out.

:water

i use textpad religiously.

i used to be a fan of homesite and editpad, but frankly, when you've got used to regular expression search and replace in textpad, can compare files perfectly (great for upgrades to code), well the others are left out of the equation.

the biggest work i've ever done in textpad was to open a 95,000 line text file and perform a regex search to find all e-mail addresses (some 26,000) and then re-format the whole file to insert into a majordomo list. it took approx 30 seconds end to end (you can raise textpads CPU priority, and it does work properly).

you sound like you already have the best tool, now you just need to play with it a while and learn all of it's features.

just to underline though, i work for BT and currently write in PHP, Perl, TCL, Vignette, ASP, C++, Oracle PL/SQL and other gibberish. Textpad does all of these and can even compile your java (just put javac in the run command at the top, and make it a keyboard shortcut).

as i've always found, the choice is usually between friendliness and power. textpad is just raw power.

cheers

david k