Good text editor for ASP?

[advocation]

I've tried Textmate (I use that for php and love it), but it does not have a asp bundle installed with it, and cant get around installing one.. I have also tried textwrangler, but it does not seem to have an asp bundle installed either

Any suggestions?

 

[elppa]

Try SkEdit.

Or Smultron.

Both have asp syntax highlighting, the later is free (but SkEdit is a really nice app with free upgrades for life, built in FTP and code completion).

 

[chameleon]

Late to the party, but....

Skedit is good -- in general -- but their ASP syntax highlighting is awful. Not very robust, and nearly worthless.

FYI...

 

[bretticus]

Also late to the party but this post comes up first in google. I just downloaded and installed jedit. Make sure you get the ftp plugin. Totally free and good (enough) asp source code highlighting!

 

[Not Available]

As a side note, Dreamweaver has ASP syntax. If you're a student, the price is decent (around... 100 pounds in the UK).

 

[memco]

Just in case anyone stumbles in here from Google, Textmate has very good ASP highlighting with the ASP bundle. Also see this thread for a link to the Get Bundle bundle, which lets you browse and install bundles from within Textmate.

 

[bretticus]

Hold the phone!

TextWrangler just released 3.0. Built in sftp/ftp client and natively highlights asp/vbscript code and it's free!

 

[angelwatt]

TextWrangler just released 3.0. Built in sftp/ftp client and natively highlights asp/vbscript code and it's free!

No, there isn't ASP support in there. The other features have been there for a while. Good to see TextWrangler wasn't abandoned though. I use BBEdit these days.

 

[bretticus]

No, there isn't ASP support in there. The other features have been there for a while. Good to see TextWrangler wasn't abandoned though. I use BBEdit these days.

I never mentioned "support." I said syntax highlighting. Which there clearly IS!!!

 

[angelwatt]

I never mentioned "support." I said syntax highlighting. Which there clearly IS!!!

What language mode do you have it set for to show the syntax coloring?

 

[bretticus]

What language mode do you have it set for to show the syntax coloring?

I see no notion of choosing any language mode at all. Like I said, it did highlighting "natively." The manual states:

By default, TextWrangler recognizes over 20 different languages and several dozen
suffix mappings. You can add new suffixes to map to existing languages or (by
installing third-party language plug-ins) add syntax coloring support for new
languages as well. All the specific languages that TextWrangler recognizes, and the
suffixes or extensions it expects for them, are listed in the Languages preference panel,
and suffix mappings can also be changed there. You can choose the colors that
TextWrangler uses for syntax coloring in the Text Colors preference panel.
Note TextWrangler will recognize and syntax-color VBScript embedded within HTML via the
<%…%> and <SCRIPT>…</SCRIPT> tags.

The last time I checked this, seems like the syntax highlighting was so so. Also, I don't recall seeing a sftp/ftp connection capability (I suppose that was there already?) anyways, I have tons of legacy ASP code to maintain (unfortunately) and switched to mac a few months ago so I am happy to see this in a free app.

 

[angelwatt]

I see no notion of choosing any language mode at all. Like I said, it did highlighting "natively." The manual states:

The last time I checked this, seems like the syntax highlighting was so so. Also, I don't recall seeing a sftp/ftp connection capability (I suppose that was there already?) anyways, I have tons of legacy ASP code to maintain (unfortunately) and switched to mac a few months ago so I am happy to see this in a free app.

At the bottom of the app window there's a bar and one of the drop down boxes lets you choose which programming language you're using. (See attachment) It's just curiosity, it may just be taking a best guess, kind of like using the PHP vbCode tags here, which work for more than just PHP.

I checked on my older TextWrangler (2.3?) and it did have the SFTP/FTP option in the file menu. I don't use that option much as I always test locally before posting something live in case it breaks the site.

 

[wheezy]

Coda

Coda has a 'asp-html' syntax mode, but I don't know .asp so I have no idea how it handles it. They offer a 15 day trial though so give it a whirl. Coda is by far my editor of choice. - Coda Download

 

[bretticus]

At the bottom of the app window there's a bar and one of the drop down boxes lets you choose which programming language you're using. (See attachment) It's just curiosity, it may just be taking a best guess, kind of like using the PHP vbCode tags here, which work for more than just PHP.

Ah, got ya! I've never used TextWrangler before much. Don't know how I missed that though.

It's a file with an asp extension but it's coming up with HTML (which seems consistent with the manual snippet from my previous post.) There must be HTML elements in the page (I merely opened it and looked at the top without scrolling. Fortunately, I don't have to maintain that ASP code much as it's being slowly phased out over time.) It does have VBScript as an option in that list and it also maintains syntax highlighting when I select it.

I don't use that option much as I always test locally before posting something live in case it breaks the site.

I test my PHP but since it's nigh impossible to test legacy ASP on IIS on my Mac, I have gotten used to making backups on the server and testing there (I know how NOT to break the server after all these years! )

I'm sure there are better paid-for options (BBEdit and Coda) but I still prefer free (and so does my employer.)