Love IDE, but one major problem

I’ve been using IDE for about 9 months now and love the power of editing live on the site. But run into an occasional bug that drives me nuts.

Sometimes when editing code, I’ll make a boo-boo and generate a PHP error when saving in IDE (an error that doesn’t give a red X in IDE, but occurs during the save). IDE will then report the error in PHP format and then I’m hosed. I can’t fix the error and save the file again, WordPress basically croaks keeps giving the same error. At this point if I load a page on the live site, it just gives the same error message. (yeah, not good editing on a live site, but it’s not like it’s being accessed by the public).

If I close IDE and open the file again, it just shows the previous error message. I then have to download the file via FTP, make the change and re-upload it and usually am fine.

Today I just did that using netBean to make the change (notepad has formatting issues with the cr/lf), and netbean apparently formatted the file differently and after it was upload generated another error (basically wordpress couldn’t understand the file as the error was on line 1). Ended up having to delete the plugin with FTP and have WordPress deactivate it. And re-install the plugin. No big deal, but it’s a pain.

Is there any way IDE can recover from this or is it just a PHP issue?

Thanks,
-james

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpide/