I’ve used Eclipse and CFEclipse for a while now, after switching from Dreamweaver several years ago.  I really didn’t dislike Dreamweaver as much as many people did, but found Eclipse to be a little better, especially with the addons that are available.  I’ve also used Coda from Panic software for the past year and a half, and it’s becoming my primary IDE.  It is not as feature rich, but it’s simple, and lightning fast.  It’s also got great FTP/SSH support, and Subversion integration.  As far as its ColdFusion support, it has some limited CF autosuggest.  Not as good an CFEclipse, and I don’t expect it to support CF9 immediately either, but it’s enough to get by on.  Since I’m using ORMs for most of my sites now, I don’t find I’m writing as many built in CF functions anyway.

In a perfect world, Bolt will be as fast as Coda, as feature filled as Dreamweaver, and as extensible as Eclipse.  All of our CF_Fingers are crossed.

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Coda is marketed as “one window web development” and it really is. I’ve been going back and forth between Dreamweaver and Eclipse for coding over the past few years, and both are great tools. I still use Eclipse for large sites at work, but I needed something for building small sites, and for quickly editing sites I’ve built in the past.

Coda lets you set up as many sites as you want, and for each site, remembers which files you have open. To make a change, you edit the file, or files and hit publish. It FTPs the files in the background, and keeps everything synchronized. You can even edit files directly on the remote site, which is great if you have specific server config files that you don’t want to be synchronized.

Also, code recognition is available for HTML, CSS, Javascript, Actionscript, Coldfusion, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, and several more. Coda is one of those programs that I’m happy to pay for. It’s $79, but will save you time every single day. There is a free trial that I think is fully functional.

Give it a try.