I've been using Homesite since version 2, and I still love it.

Unfortunately, since Macromedia bought it out (way to stop it from outselling your second rate editor guys), they have shown no commitment to continued development, and now that they're owned by Adobe, the chances of ever seeing an update are looking pretty slim.

While Homesite is still hands down the best editor that I've ever used for everything from HTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, through to Windows scripting, it's beginning to show its age in some areas. I've searched high and low for a suitable replacement, but nothing I've seen even comes close, for my needs at least.

I was contemplating beginning development (in vs.net) of a "Homesite Replacement" type app. Basically Homesite, but more customizeable, easier to extend through regexp code highlighting etc, with a more up to date style text editor (more like MS's Visual Studio.net). I hate using third party controls, but these guys seem to have the right kind of idea. It would also be nice to have some kind of extensions interface, so that for example, there could be a visual database query/browser, but if you don't want to use it, you don't have to load it.

While going through the project outline and goals, it occurred to me that this really is a monstrous task for a single developer, and so at this point, I'm considering two options - is there already an application out there that fits the bill (bearing in mind the features that I've mentioned, I have no interest in Notepad2 or CrimsonEdit)? The second option is to put together a team of talented developers to bring this project to life, would anyone be interested in undertaking such a project?

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What you're looking for is Eclipse:

http://eclipse.org/

Trust me. If you need to develop something custom for web coding, you'll probably be better off making it an Eclipse plugin, on the off chance something similar isn't already available. To flesh it out, I recommend a distro like this one:

http://www.myeclipseide.com/

To that, I add PHPEclipse (free) and oXygen XML editor (which I like better than Altova's), I end up paying a bit, but less than Homesite costs.

http://oxygenxml.com/

Well i use Dreamweaver and that is really good. Also have you looked at Frontpage? Those are the only two i have ever used.

I've heard rave reviews about PSPad (http://www.pspad.com/en/), though my limited experience with it finds it slightly lacking in the area of convenience, mostly because I'm so used to Homesite myself.

Some lengthy discussions (http://www.iwdn.net/showthread.php?t=2769) regarding this editor. Oddly enough, it involved the replacement of Homesite as well!

Originally posted by Sting13
Well i use Dreamweaver and that is really good. Also have you looked at Frontpage? Those are the only two i have ever used. Heh heh - not even in the same zipcode comparing WYSINWOPG editors to text editing programs ;)

Though, I suppose it's worthwhile noting the continuance of Homesite's development is most likely to take place within the coding area of Dreamweaver, but why pay $400 for a mostly worthless application just to get a text editor out of it?

edit:
just found this thread when I was searching for a replacement for PHPEdit (which, while I like, I've found to be a bit buggy). PSPad looks nice, definitely worth further investigation. Thanks!