Hi, I am looking for a good editer for my ubuntu installation. I don't need really any of the WYSIWYG features. I just want all the coding side features with support for css/html/xml/php and the file browser with support to edit the files directly off a server. Any good suggestions.

I'm not particularly good with either one, but I think both emacs and vi can handle all your editing.

If you want a WYSIWYG editor, go for nvu, but I'd suggest quanta+, which I'm using myself. Bluefish seems to be good too. Of course emacs and vi can handle the job, but really, they aren't really useful if you want to make complete websites.

I've built several websites using only emacs, a graphics editor and an FTP client. If you have SSH access to your server, you will often find emacs or vi or both installed as command line tools - just type emacs <filename>, edit the file, Ctrl-X Ctrl-S to save and the change is made to the file in place - no need for FTP.

Like I mentioned I'm not particularly experienced with it, but from what I understand you can add a lot to emacs that will help in web development.

Not too long ago I was looking for software to use in maintaining a basic 'to do' list and I think I ran across something that said I could get the functionality with an addon to emacs.

Unfortunately I'm not that comfortable with the program at the moment.

Emacs is pretty cool, it would just take you all your life to amster it all. In any case its easier to use than VI (unless your a bit of a guru).

GUI editors come in linux in many flavours but I find eclipse pretty cool and the best of the free ones. Of course if you have a few bob spare you could fork out for ZEND IDE which is now on V 5 and is damned good.

Ibbo

I've looked at the zend ide and it did look cool. There are just so many free editors and as long as one has colored syntax highlighting and can modify files in real time on a server I'm all set.

That's what I find is all I really need. The rest is luxury though of course nice to have.

I have no joy finding one that has built in ftp support. The closest was Eclipse IDE but even then its ftp supprt is negligable.

Ibbo

I still do most of my work in Windows (I know, I know) I am learning Linux when I have the time so I can make the switch.

I found an editor called HTML Kit,

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

which I think is Windows only that has pretty good ftp support. It gives you a tree folder view like explorer for what's on the server so it's basically like working locally while you make updates to the server.

I'm not crazy about a lot of things with it, but that feature alone saves me so much time I'm sticking with it till I find something else.

Anyone use Bluefish regularly?

My favourute editor is SciTE (http://scintilla.org/). It is very small but very powerfull editor

IMO, vi editor is the powerful editor. I think NVU is also the good HTML editor. You should have a look at this site http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8150