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1. ALTERNATIVES TO BLUMENTALS RAPID PHP EDITOR UPDATE
2. ALTERNATIVES TO BLUMENTALS RAPID PHP EDITOR UPGRADE
3. ALTERNATIVES TO BLUMENTALS RAPID PHP EDITOR CODE
4. ALTERNATIVES TO BLUMENTALS RAPID PHP EDITOR WINDOWS

The company thus needed to find an integration strategy that delivered improvements without breaking what people had come to expect. It's not quite as smooth as what I'm used to but I'll excuse that because Blumentals does have a customer base used to its style of search. Rapid's Search & Replace functionality improved greatly, mostly by integrating all forms of search into a single dialog. But if it's not supported, the IDE should tell me that when I attempt it, either by prohibiting it (displaying the not sign when hovering over the destination folder) or by emitting a message to that effect. Drag and drop is a basic "explorer" operation and its absence, which I admittedly did not notice before, is a problem. Failure to complete means the state of the publishing target is unstable.Īfter mentioning this in the Blumentals' forums, I was told by a WeBuilder user that this type of drag and drop operation was not supported. By "crash" I mean that the program exits with no warning, no error message and, of course, without completing the copy. It works perfectly in EW, PhpStorm, and VSC.

ALTERNATIVES TO BLUMENTALS RAPID PHP EDITOR WINDOWS

I'm getting the impression that the file explorer needs an overhaul.Īnother operation that is common to my style of work is drag and drop copying of a file or files from the Windows Explorer directly in to the IDE or editor I'm using. To publish a selection of files, I want to be able to make multiple selections of files/folders directly within the File Explorer. I found this inconvenient because my expectation is that publishing a folder means just that. When publishing a folder, Rapid launches a dialog listing all files in the folder and allowing the user to make a selection of contained files. In short, the ability to publish a folder is not an improvement at all. This kind of unreliability and uncertainty is not acceptable. The behavior leads me to believe that the FTP client built in to Rapid is not robust. The error messages are not descriptive and do not indicate why the failure occurred or how far along the publish was. I regularly get errors that stop the publish operation. Unfortunately, folder publishing is unreliable.

In other words, 2020 has added the ability to publish a folder, an important improvement and certainly a step in the right direction.

ALTERNATIVES TO BLUMENTALS RAPID PHP EDITOR CODE

All of these items can be published from Expression Web and most can be published from other IDEs and editors (e.g., PhpStorm, Visual Studio Code (VSC)). In the review of Rapid 2018 I listed things that could not be published from the File Explorer. The other important improvement is the ability to publish folders via FTP. Search has undergone an extensive rework.

ALTERNATIVES TO BLUMENTALS RAPID PHP EDITOR UPGRADE

The most notable upgrade is to search, something I have complained about in previous reviews. As usual, Blumentals' descriptions of new and updated features is vague and fluffy, making it difficult to understand exactly what has changed.

ALTERNATIVES TO BLUMENTALS RAPID PHP EDITOR UPDATE

Rapid 2020 is mostly an update release, with minor improvements in most of its major sections. Having recently purchased Rapid 2020 and it being my primary "other" tool already, it was only natural that I would examine it very closely to see if it could take on the role of my primary Web development tool. This brought into sharp focus my need to decide upon a new set of tools.

In that article I explain events that have convinced me that I cannot continue to use Expression Web (EW). In that context, I recently published Expression Web: The Final Denouement.

This discussion will focus on the areas that are most important to me. I have reviewed Blumentals Rapid PHP Editor twice before, first a casual review of the 2016 edition and then a slightly more detailed examination of the 2018 edition.