Tonight I discovered Bluefish and fell in love.

I had been using gPHPedit and putting up with tiny bugs, a fairly basic interface, and the mixing of tabs with spaces since the editor decided 4 spaces equaled one tab and deleted my spaces automaticly.

The coolest thing I found was the little macro maker. One thing I didn't like doing before was making the format for a new function. The first macro I made allows me to just hit a button, get prompted for a function name ("foo" in the example), and get:

and places my cursor 4 spaces in the function body ready to type function content, all PHPDoc and PEAR compliant.

Finally having the directory browser on the left is nice too since hitting the open folder icon and navigating directories in double clicks was clumsy. I'm not much fond of the dark red for variable names, but perhaps I will be in time.

I even took a Bluefish screenshot of the Jan 4th, 2004 Bluefish snapshot for Fedora.