I have Slackware 12.1 and wish to try out Eclipse for PHP/HTML/JavaScript development. However, it seems I'm facing myriad of possible options and I'd hate to miss the best thing and give up on Eclipse (I'm currently using Geany, but I'm missing some stuff like , for example, auto-complete for JavaScript)
I'm currently looking into just installing All-in-one PDT package version 1.0.3 from here:
http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/downloads/
However, that seems to be Eclipse 3.3. There's also Slackware package for 3.4 here:
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/development/eclipse/3.4/
But it says it a "Classic" version. I'm not sure how hard would be to add PHP, HTML, JavaScript support for it.
Note: I don't plan to run PHP through Eclipse's integrated web server or anything like that. I just want a powerful editor.
P.S. Also, recommendations for something better than Eclipse that is for Linux and free are also welcome. I already used Kate, SciTE, Geany, Emacs, Vi and Bluefish, so those are not interesting.
Important: whatever you recommend, please explain reasons why. Don't rush to be the fastest gun in the west, as I'll downvote such answers that only say "use this"
If you want auto-complete for JavaScript, in that case you should to use some plug-in for Eclipse such as Aptana Studio, but Aptana is more than auto-compete tool for javascript, it has included a lot of unnecessary things that you don't need for regular development. I have the same problem to find the right solution for JavaScript in Eclipse, Aptana was ok, but I hate the additional features that Aptana includes, I didn't find any good tool which could be added to Eclipse, for JavaScript :( For script languages such as JSP, Eclipse is like a song...nice,sweet and smooth...;)