not trying to troll, but as a lowly usability guy who also does a ton of php coding, the issue with most things of this nature which gets me all fussy is that there's too many attempts at being an end-all-be-all, kitchen-sink-included application.
my advice to any programmer making *any* non-commercial application is to put your needs first: create the thing exactly as you would want it.
i don't want microsoft office level bloat in a php editor. there's a ton of options as far as which editor i choose out there, and i like that.
make the thing the way you want, and if you take suggestions, only take the ones you think are relevant. if i like your methodology and think the way you look at an editor matches my own, i'll download it, love it, and probably live with it.
sure, syntax highlighting is nice, but if i had my way, i'd like to see block highlighting as well (select a block of text, right click, choose the background highlight color for that block).
you can /sort of/ do that in homesite, but not really.
that might be a feature none of you would ever want or use, but i've now wanted for ages. that said, i wouldn't want you putting it in your editor if you've no use for it: eventually i'll find one that's right for me.
just my .02 :]
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