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>> I'm on a XP desktop - which is fine as I have been writing specs with
>> Word that has changed a little since Word 2.

>
> Install VMWare Player and then a Linux distro within it?
>
> Andy

>
Get a nice prebuilt Virtual Appliance such as
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/550  ? loads more to choose
from there

Then link your WinXP into the Linux file system with samba so you can
use your familiar windows gui.

I'm really finding Eclipse PDT useful with some extra plugins like
"subclipse" for SVN.

This tweak is handy

<tweak src=" http://drupal.org/node/75242 ">
Expand the left-hand menu to General ->Workspace
Set 'Text file encoding' to 'UTF-8'
Set 'New text file line delimiter' to 'Unix'
</tweak>

There are some links at bottom of page with good how-tos for setting
up eclipse and php for debugging.

Steve