Best IDE for php/ci development

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
[quote author="Cro_Crx" date="1249064062"]but this time it's different because netbeans 6.7 is out [/quote]

Had it not been for this en passant comment, I'd not have known to try NetBeans again, so one small plus.

On the downside, NetBeans 6.7 is about as bad as 6.5 and 6.1.

Tabs still can't be highlighted. There's no distinction between spaces and tabs in the 'highlight whitespace' (so they have an idea that people might want to highlight whitespace .. but haven't made that leap to 1989 yet).

The weird indenting problem that I described in the last 'which IDE?' thread seems to have been resolved, but from memory it was an intermittent problem .. so it might not be resolved so much as 'occurs less often'.

Indenting seems still to be broken by design - the authors appear convinced that everyone wants to indent code the same way that they indent code, which is sweet, but a tad 1980's in its thinking. (Quanta+, by comparison, gives you 7 indentation modes to choose from, out of the box, and if you want you can configure your own custom model - this is software that was written a decade ago, btw.)

Oh, needless to say, I hate indenting code the way that NetBeans wants to indent code.

To be fair I think my bigger complaint here is the way that it inserts matching brackets/braces/parenthesis for you, and the way it changes your spacing (without asking) on the closing brace is the really rude bit. I'd turn off auto-insert of matching/closing braces if I was forced to use this editor, but I suspect it'd still try to frig with my indenting after I went to bed.

Braces are still highlighting in a weird (but presumably intentional) way - insofar as it only highlights the other brace to the one you're on, rather than highlighting both of them. Anyone who has used vi (f.e.) in the past 20 years - or indeed any other editor in existence - will be comfortable with both braces highlighting, and a single brace highlight (personal opinion here) gives you a sense of un-balance .. which kind of goes against the whole idea of braces.

Installation for just the PHP version of Netbeans is pretty heavy. v6.5 was 98MB, and v6.7 is 110MB. Curiously the installation process promises to use only 95MB. In any case, 110MB for an editor is a bit rude.

Performance - thanks to its java addiction presumably - still feels a bit sticky at times, and this is on an unburdened 2GB quad-core box.