Sorry for my slow response, I'm checking out all those recommendations now - thanks, I really appreciate the tips.

Basically what I want is Homesite updated, but it's doubtful that it will even be included in Macromedia Studio any more (I should know for sure in a few days when work gets Studio 8). Homesite is still the best of the editors I've tried, hands down, but it would really benefit from being even more configurable, and many aspects of it are beginning to show their age.

I've tried a lot of editors with built in FTP, database browsers etc, but ultimately I just want a good solid editor, if I want anything else, I can easily use a program specifically for that task.

I'll post my thoughts on the suggestions when I've had a good look.

Cheers,

AJ

EDIT: I'll save double posting by just editing this one.

PHP Designer and Rapid PHP looked reasonable, but was restrictive in the server side languages it supports. Since I use a lot of ASP, that ruled this one out for me. I also do a fair amount of Windows scripting. One thing I really like about Homesite is the vast number of languages supported, and the fact that if it isn't supported, chances are you can download a file while will add support.

SciTE looks like a solid no-nonsense editor. However, unfortunately for me, much of what I do requires Windows, though I'd much rather be running Linux full time. I have kind of a soft spot for Quanta when working in nix. It's about time someone knocked down Adobe and Macromedia's doors and forced them to start supporting nix at gunpoint. I don't mind running a 5 year old OS as a shell for games, but as a user environment, it's clearly behind the pack.

UEStudio was a little intimidating at first, and I haven't had a chance to take a really good look at it yet. From what I can tell, it seems like it has the basics of what I want, and is customizeable enough that if I invest the time, it may end up replacing Homesite. It's not exactly what I was looking for, but with some work, it may end up being as close as I'm likely to get.

Writing a Homesite clone from scratch is no small task, even with the undesireable portions removed (RDS, FTP etc). In a perfect world, Macromedia (or Adobe now I guess) would have the decency to release the source into the wild if they didn't want it any more, then we'd have the highly talented open source community keeping this damn fine program up to date. In reality, the reason that this won't happen is the same reason that Macromedia bought it up in the first place - because they were the competition, and it was making them look (extremely) bad.

AJ