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I need to find good IDE (mac) so far my list that sux are:

Netbeans
Aptana
textwrangler
eclipse


As soon as you load a big file they all grind to a halt, would like something as fast as textedit but with project and javascript support.

Any suggestions?

I use Sublime Text 2, it is by far my favorite. TextMate is pretty good too.

http://impactjs.com/forums/everything-else/choosing-the-ide-and-cvs

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Sublime Text 2 is my favorite (Lightweight, with all the plugins I need and simple)
Coda 2 is excellent too.

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I use Sublime Text 2, it is by far my favorite. TextMate is pretty good too.

seconded. love using it for impactjs. eval copy is free (nagware) but definitely worth the 60 bucks.

+1 to Sublime Text 2. Haven't used it on mac yet... but I'm sure it's still a great product.

I stick with Notepad++ (and use it via Crossover on Mac), it's not an IDE but I find I want things to stay out of my face when coding anyway.

im going to take a look at sublime thanks everyone, but i have a feeling im going to end up seeing things like Arantor.

sublime wont open a 1.5MB .js file :-(

1.5 MB!?

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1.5 MB!?

Exactly ?!?

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sublime wont open a 1.5MB .js file :-(

I was able to open a 3.78 MB Weltmeister level in Sublime Text 2 just a moment ago. My CPU became bogged down, but it worked.

Any time you load megabytes of raw text, you're going to be taxing your CPU quite a bit, regardless of which text editor you're using.

@paulh

As soon as you load a big file they all grind to a halt, would like something as fast as textedit but with project and javascript support.

Patience is a great tool to have. Costs nothing though feels expensive at times. :)

Anyway, for projects, we use textmate or sublime, with gitbox (a mac git client) and, for larger project feature tracking, pivotal.

SublimeText2 on Mac, Win, Ubuntu.
The plugin SFTP for remote coding to my linux server when needed.
Dropbox project when ever I code remotely, linked folders to my local Xampp
and linked to a xcode project for easy ipad testing.

Also tried cloud9 http://c9.io/ i can basically code from my phone/ipad/ anywhere really :-)

yea bu when i load the same file into textedit, its loaded quickly, no slowdown fast editing, just have no project settings in textedit....i think anything with java core is going to struggle...

Well big files in sublime will be kinda intense on your machine.

Go out and buy some juicy fresh ram for your i7 core :-)

But yeah maybe notepad++ is faster in that regard.

Sublime Text 2. No more questions.

I use BBEdit and happy with it so far

I swear by Sublime Text 2,.. and so does a lot of the more vocal web developers on the internet right now. I have yet to experience the issues others report of 1.5mb files. But my first thought is why is your text file 1.5mb? Break it up with includes?

If you don't like sublime check out Komodo Edit Light (free) or Aptana Studio. Guys at work swear by them.

Coda 2 is pretty and has its uses by I feel like it gets in the way too much.