Web Programming Software for Linux

[MikoLone]

I am looking for a good web programming text editor for my brand spanking new ubuntu box that I just set up. I know there are a lot out there and I have checked out kate, kwrite, bluefish, etc. But I am still looking. Here is what I am looking for.


Color coding
file browser
ftp built in


It is the built in ftp that I can't seem to find. I am always working remotely and I want to be able to connect through sftp to servers remotely and have the file list built into the program. If anyone knows of any program like this let me know. Dreamweaver and text wrangler has this capability but they are not on linux.

Thanks,

Michael

[ess]

Option 1.
You can install dreamweaver on linux using wineHQ http://www.winehq.org/

Option 2
you can use JEdit....and add the FTP plug-in. Also, if you do install JEdit, pay attention to SuperAbbrevs. Here is a link that shows how to use it http://ifakedit.com/log/2006/02/19/jedit-tutorial-a-how-to-on-abbreviations-superabbrevs-in-html-ruby-on-rails-and-more/

Personally, since it switched to JEdit, I have stopped using any other IDEs or text editors...as you can customize JEdit to the way you like to work...which is really cool ;)
Cheers,
Ess

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

There is also NVU (http://www.nvu.com/index.php) which is similar to Dreamweaver, has the features you need, can run on linux, and it is free.

[Spookster]

Eclipse maybe? I don't recall if it has plugins/support for web development.

[oracleguy]

Eclipse maybe? I don't recall if it has plugins/support for web development.

I'm pretty sure there are ones for syntax highlighting and stuff for like PHP. In addition there might be a plug-in for FTP support.

[ess]

According to this URL...there is an ftp plug-in for Eclipse.
http://www.phpeclipse.de/tiki-index.php?page=FTP+and+WebDAV

[MikoLone]

Thanks guys. I will check this stuff out. I don't want to run Dreamweaver though. I don't what to spend money on it.

Also if anyone else has the same problem. kate has a pretty good option I found out.

In kate if you do and open and type into the box

fish://username@ipordomain.com

it will connect and then you can open any file over fish. You can do the same with sftp

sftp://username@ipordomain.com

Also, I found out I could use bluefish by connecting to a server on the desktop.

Anyway, thanks for the help.

Michael

[firepages]

I like and use quanta+ (http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/) though for full FTP functionality you need KDE running since it uses KDE control center for FTP settings, but it does do CVS, all the highlighting, autocomplete (if you want it) etc

Bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/) is good as well if a little more simplistic GTK based editor.


important, I linked to the 2 homepages above but I would not suggest you download anything from them, use apt or the synaptic package manager

#> sudo apt-get install bluefish quanta quanta-data nvu

[MikoLone]

I have tried bluefish and it is pretty good.

I also found out that using kate and opening a server directory using sftp and fish, you have to have kde installed. so on ubuntu and did a sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop and once it installed I could use that trick to use kate.

Thanks for the advice. I am going to check out quanta+

[HarrisonM]

The way to run dreamwaver with winehq looks more preferable for most of webmasters.

[liorean]

There is also NVU (http://www.nvu.com/index.php) which is similar to Dreamweaver, has the features you need, can run on linux, and it is free.NVU 1.0, the last version, is two years old and based on Gecko 1.7. Glaz gave the project maintainance over to Kazé under the name of KompoZer (http://kompozer.net/), which is probably a better WYSIWYG to recommend people than the old NVU.

Glaz is now working on the Mozilla Composer, which will be XULRunner (Gecko 1.8+) based. (As of now it's a SeaMonkey component and not self contained, I think.)

[MikoLone]

I am not looking for a WSYWIG editor and the problem with Dreamweaver is that it is not free. Plus in using Dreamweaver's ftp and site management I found that it would cache files and the over write changes I had made from other computers. Even after I had pushed the refresh button. It made me so mad that I have sworn off Dreamweaver. After fighting with windows so much I have also sworn off windows. Since I quit playing games, I have no reason to ever buy Windows again.

Thus the ubuntu install, thus the search for a good text editor to use on linux.

I have enjoyed using kate since I have posted. Once I learned how to connect to a server with it. I want to try this bluefish thing. It seems to look a lot like dreamweaver and it will use the ssh connection that I make by going to "connect to server" from the places menu.

Thanks for the responses.

Michael

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

I am not looking for a WSYWIG editor and the problem with Dreamweaver is that it is not free. Plus in using Dreamweaver's ftp and site management I found that it would cache files and the over write changes I had made from other computers. Even after I had pushed the refresh button. It made me so mad that I have sworn off Dreamweaver.
Thats just a classic example of a user not knowing how to use a tool properly. Dreamweaver has a checkin/checkout feature for exactly this reason. It also knows when the file was modified so it should ask you if you want to overwrite it with the new file. But I agree DW is pricey but I think its a good investment if you know how to use it properly.

[MikoLone]

I was using it properly.

I had set up an FTP site. FTP means that you edit the files directly on the server. Why would I check anything out 1. if I am the only person editing on my server. and 2. I am suppose to be editing the file that resides on the server.

The fact is the Dreamweaver was not properly updating the files. It acted like the files had not been edited when they had been and then on save they would over write the changes on the server.

I was not using it improperly. Thus, I don't trust Dreamweaver and therefore I am using something different.