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Originally Posted by Revan

No it bloody well isnt.
I strongly resent the ENTIRE part of this post.
I used Dreamweaver for 90 % of my coding career, and not ONCE has it (nor FrontPage for that matter) fooked up my files.
The ONLY reason why it would EVER destroy vB code is if you, in your preferences, turned ON code rewriting.
Now I got code rewriting on, and yet DW doesnt mess up my vB files!?
OMFG!
I just put .php and .php3 as an extension in "Never rewrite code files with the following extensions:"

I cannot express thoroughly enough how much it PISSES ME OFF that someone just writes "Dreamweaver is not recommended because it destroyd vB coding", without actually bothering to check what the cause is and try to resolve it internally.

I've only used dreamweaver about 4 years ago before i started working with php and SSI includes were the popular way to make semi-dynamic websites. But i have used Frontpage a lot, and it does add a lot of crap of it's own into your files. Especially if you edit parts of html code, like a vb template for example, where the <table> tags are missing, it adds those in. When you put the template back in vBulletin it will be screwed up. I would have never thought of using it for php though, simply because it's a WYSIWYG html editor.

Anyway, my main tool has been notepad and 99% of my work has been done using notepad. Syntax highlighting is not important to me. In fact, i find it annoying. It distracts your attention from the actual code, with that dumb color coding. As for line numbering, CTRL+G in notepad (word wrap off) will take you directly to the line number you enter.