Today I spend some time finding a new PHP editor, because the ones I currently use (Quanta and TSwebeditor) are far from perfect. From all the ones I tried Jedit came out best. It has almost all I need and it's great that I can use it on both operating systems I use (Linux and W2K).

There's only one thing I miss in Jedit, and on the net I found more people complaining about Jedit lacking this option. The thing I miss is a PHP function tree. If I have a long PHP file with lots of functions, it's very usefull to have a list of all those funtions somewhere on your screen, so you can switch to a particular function by clicking on it. This saves a lot of scrolling. Here is a screenshot of a TSwebeditor with a function list: http://194.112.147.2/tswebeditor/img/s/10.png

Hi,

The XPath plug-in is a good idea, however it is relatively useless and I hardly ever use it purely because you cannot perform XPath queries relative to a specific node (they are always executed relative to the root node) and therefore you can never test out and optimise your XPath queries. For example:

If I had the some XML representing a page and the current node I was matching (using XSLT for example) was the "body" node, but I wanted to find out the title of the page from this node the best way to do this would be to use the query "ancestor::page/@title". However this is not possible to test in the current XPath plugin.