[TriLUG] Developer environment for starting programmer

[C. Brantley West, III]

Not exactly an IDE, but TextWrangler is free, has syntax highlighting, file
navigation, and supports FTP/SFTP transfers.  I second the git suggestion.

-bw

C. Brantley West, III
cbwest at gmail.com

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> Be forwarned, certain Bluefish versions can be pretty buggy. One Debian
> Bluefish I had crashed every 20 seconds if you had changed any config
> info. It got to the point where I saved after every sentence, and
> still lost a lot of work. My current Manjaro Bluefish will not wordwrap.
>
> Bluefish is a spectacular authoring environment on which my business
> depends, but sometimes you need to go the extra mile to get it to work
> as expected.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt                *  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:41:45 -0500
> Ken M <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
>
> > Bluefish can work with remote files. However I will say it is good to
> > know vim.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Dec 23, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Jonathan Mainguy <jon at jmainguy.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > If money is no object, dreamweaver was pretty fun to play with
> > > before I got into the command line.
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Ron Kelley
> > >> <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Greetings all,
> > >>
> > >> My son (15) has started his journey on the programming trail! He
> > >> is very interested in website development - especially CSS, PHP,
> > >> HTML, and MySQL. To “stoke the fire”, I have spun up a CentOS 6.5
> > >> virtual machine for him with the typical LAMP stack.
> > >>
> > >> One issue I face is his ability to work with the files remotely.
> > >> Since he does not have command over the terminal yet, editing
> > >> files by hand (vi, etc) over an SSH session are a little out of
> > >> his reach.  I am looking for a good IDE he can use to edit his
> > >> files remotely from his laptop.  Years ago, I used MS Frontpage
> > >> (yeah, I know, this is a Linux thread), but the tool was easy to
> > >> use and allowed me to get my hands wet with web site building.
> > >>
> > >> He is running a Mac laptop, and so I am looking for a good tool
> > >> that works well on Mac.  Any pointers?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks!
> > >>
> > >>
>
>
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