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I have been looking at Komodo for years -- but now I am using it as my primary IDE (for small remote edits, I still use nano). The speed is adequate on Tumbler (a mere 2.5 GHz dual core with 4GB of RAM) and the features are right. The most important thing for me is the per project ability to set which directories to use for autocomplete and calltips. This means that I can hack simulatenously on NowPublic, Drupal core 5, 6 and 7 and still get the right calltips. Very nice! I guess I will be able to get the debugger kicking, too. When I will, I will report back.
Big thanks to Jeff Griffiths from ActiveState who answered to my shameless, unabashed question about how much does Komodo cost for me:
For people that are constantly hacking on and improving technology we use every day, there is no price you could pay us that we would accept. I've instructed our sales people to comp you a free license
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I've been using Komodo Edit for a long time and really enjoy it. It's always the editor I come back to. I occasionally try the IDE version during major releases and like it a lot, but can't afford the license. I should ask if I can get the same developer discount. :)
I'm admittedly biased - I use Komodo and wouldn't give it or it's debugger up (good tips for using/setting-up debugger here - it's a bit older version but the basics haven't changed). Activestate is a great supporter of the Drupal community, to boot. :-)
Btw - as far as any speed issues that people sometimes complain about - you can tweak the "Enable background syntax checking" value for a good effect, and if your really a hardcore (crazy?) speedfreak you can turn off "Enable automatic autocomplete and calltip triggering while you type".
Also, highly recommended to grab the xdebug helper firefox plugin which helps speed up debugging sessions.