Seventy-percent of my work day is spent in a code editor. For years I tried out every single application listed until I finally discovered PSPad. One of the requirements I needed was a ’save all’ option to save all currently open files, and the ability to search & replace in files - open files, or files in a directory.

Now, I have the problem of being split between two apps. For years I’ve also used Zend Studio, and now that I finally have a computer that can handle it’s resource requirements, I can’t decide which app to use. Zend Studio has amazing code completion, even completing classes/functions/variables from other places in the project. It increases productivity and dramatically reduces my trips to the php.net documentation to lookup the exact syntax of a function.

I’ve forced myself to use it exclusively for several weeks now and I’m finally getting used to it. PSPad had the ability to search and replace in files on disk, while Zend Studio only replaces text strings in open files. PSPad also had a toolbar button to toggle word-wrapping. When editing text I frequently need word-wrapping, but when I’m programming I usually turn it off. Zend allows me to toggle it, but only after getting to its location in the preference pane first.