jEdit
I downloaded jEdit today, and after some configuration and some plugin installs — it’s now my favourite editor for coding sessions (sessions apposed to quickie stuff, where I still use EditPlus). Though I think it’s mainly used as a Java editor (as you could probably gather from the name), it supports countless other languages, including PHP.
I have two favourite features. One being the code folding, where you can collapse chunks of code. The other being the Whitespace plugin that, amongst other things, “lines up” indentation levels. For example, between the { } of a while loop, you can see a grey line that lets you clearly distinguish where the loop starts and finishes, and lets you see at a glance what code belongs to the loop.
Anyway, I thought I’d share my new favorite editor 
May 23rd, 2005 at 12:19 am
The +/- for blocks of code is nice, I like that a lot about NetBeans for Java. But for PHP, it’s Zend Studio for the win.
May 23rd, 2005 at 11:35 am
I tried a bunch of editors yesterday, Zend Studio amongst them. Augh, I can’t stand Zend Studio.
May 23rd, 2005 at 5:21 pm
I don’t know how I’d live with out it. It has every feature imaginable for PHP devs (hell, it’s made by the company who made php) and its easy to use. What can’t you stand about it?
May 24th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
I don’t know. I’m a big fan of the simpler editors, having that error list plugin is about as crazy I’ll ever go
Zend Studio seems clunky and slow to me, it doesn’t have the comfortable feeling.
May 25th, 2005 at 11:47 am
Maybe you need a faster computer, its smooth for me
May 25th, 2005 at 1:04 pm
Slower then any other editor I like using. I was really surprised with the speed of jEdit, a lot of the Java editors are slow[er].
June 18th, 2005 at 2:50 am
jEdit is free and Zend isn’t. As long as Zend is used just as a editor, it doesn’t make sense to pay for it.
btw i use jEdit as well
September 29th, 2005 at 11:50 am
Hi Chris,
About a month ago, I tried the jEdit editor. The main reason is the unicode support (EditPlus lucks it). Well, the editor is good, a lot of features … but is veerrryyyy slow. By accident I found the Notepad++ editor [http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/] and felt in love with it
It has the features you mention and to me is much more usable. Not to forget that it is written in C++ and is very fast, even faster than EditPlus. Ah, it is also free.
I suggest you to try it. I hope you will love the way the folding works.
The only feature found in EditPlus is the remote FTP edit. But it is not the jEdit too.
September 30th, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Hey Ivan,
Funny you should mention this! I was at school looking for a free alternative to EditPlus and I came across Notepad++. I like it!
I still haven’t used it for an actual “session”, so I’m not sure if it has any annoying quirks
But it looks good.
I also had a look at ConTEXT, not bad
October 8th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
Hi Chris,
I do not know about the ConTEXT, but I have been using EditPlus for years and I completely replaced it with Notepad++ about a month ago. I hope you’ll like it as well.
Ivan