Text Editor with decent syntax highlighting

I currently use Notepad to code PHP on my main Windows PC -- I would love to begin coding on Linux machines + the RPi, but I have not yet found a decent and easy to use text editor with good syntax highlighting.

Does anyone else code PHP on Linux/Rpi? If so, which editor do you use?

I currently use Notepad to code PHP on my main Windows PC -- I would love to begin coding on Linux machines + the RPi, but I have not yet found a decent and easy to use text editor with good syntax highlighting.

Does anyone else code PHP on Linux/Rpi? If so, which editor do you use?

You use Notepad?? That doesn't do syntax highlighting either.

But there are plenty of syntax highlighting editors. Geany for one. Scite is another.

Emacs can do syntax colouring from the command line without any GUI.

Whoops, I meant notepad++ Will check out the others you suggested

[jamesh]

gedit

vim as well (my preferred console editor) just need to add syntax on to you .vimrc

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/turn-on-or-off-color-syntax-highlighting-in-vi-or-vim/

/me considers mentioning emacs and thereby initiate an emacs vs vi thread ...!

Being a vim guy who uses it exclusively for PHP development, I can say that if you are willing to get around the [steep] learning curve, it pays off tremendously. Not knowing emacs at all (with the exclusion of the fishbowl-shaped variety), I can't argue its merits or lack thereof, and the internet has done so ad nauseum already.

If you need quick-and-dirty, and still have access to your Windows computer, you could always use WinSCP (or perhaps Filezilla client using SFTP, though I've yet to test that) to access the Pi's filesystem, and have it open .php files using your Windows editor of choice. Basically, it creates a local temp copy for you to modify, and when you save changes it gets persisted back to your SSH endpoint. For the record, I use this technique to get access to my Windows system's installation of GVim -- but it would work just as well with any other text editor.

Just try Sublime Text 2 for X and VIM on console....

I'm +1 for Sublime Text, using it to edit Python and XML.
http://www.sublimetext.com/2

If you are using Notepad++ on Windows then you may be comfortable with the Scite which also uses the Scintilla editing component and is light weight, cross platform and has colour syntax highlighters and folding algorithm for many languages - but you will need to be running 'X'. Scintilla is packaged for Debian - 'sudo apt-get install scite' I think.
Full disclosure: I am a contributor to the Scite/Scintilla project so naturally I am a little biased:

vi ....... it makes sense in the long run

Emacs- great editor with many extensions.

Personally I've always used kwrite or kate, which included by default on KDE.

No one a fan of nano ?
That's my weapon of choice at the moment.

You should echo and pipe your code in its entirety every time you want to recompile. But really I find geany to be quite nice, though I've played with vim a bit and it does seem that it'd be quicker once you learn it well.

At one of the "breakout sessions" after the recent Cambridge RaspberryJam, Eben declared that "ed is the One True Editor"

I have been using Nano for any command line editing, because I use it at work too, and I will try out scite first because I have used it in windows several times

Thanks for all your suggestions

I wonder if mc "midnight commander" is available? good at C highlighting. and command line.

Midnight Commander is available. To get it, do

sudo apt-get install mc

then just

mc

to run it. It appears to run OK, but I use emacs, so can't go into any detail.

jed is a nice text based editor. It has drop down menus using the F10 key and "key" letters. It color highlights well.

To install:

apt-get install jed

Jeff

PS. I still prefer vim but I started with c and unix many years ago.

gedit

I found I couldn't get that working in the Wheezy image, is it sorted out for Raspbian?

I use nano or Geany on the R-Pi, though I'm very fond of Notepad++ myself as well.