We recently changed to using Eclipse as a web-editor. Eclipse is an open-source editor which has been designed to program java-applets, but in the meanwhile lots of other tools have been incorporated to support web-development in general. Now we can use 1 tool to edit web-templates, look in to jdbc-databases (oracle,mysql,postgres), do file-comparissons and cooperate using version management.
A special plug-in is available to work with cold fusion (cfeclipse) this plug-in has equal capacities as studio/homesite (like syntax highlighting,collapsing).
Another nice thing is that it runs on java and you don't need to install anything to get eclipse going, so if we visit a customer where we do not have lots of privileges, we copy eclipse to the harddrive and start working.
Some disadvantages are: the total code is at least some 200mb of files (huge download) and it runs on the java-platform which sometimes gives some performance issues on windows computers.
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