Is it a good idea to edit WordPress within Eclipse?

A friend and I are building a WordPress website. He has already customised a WordPress theme, and I can view the new site in an Internet explorer and edit it within the WordPress tool. He has sent me the source code.

I need to do many modifications, and as a developer, I want to do that with Eclipse instead of the WordPress tool (is it a good idea?)

Under Linux, I have already installed Eclipse, PDT, XAMPP, and can run very basic PHP+CSS projects.

Does anyone know what are the following configuration steps?

Topic eclipse ide linux Wordpress

Category Web

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Yes, you absolutely should use a proper code editor like Eclipse instead of the web interface. Another good idea that will save you tons of headaches is to install git and create a local repository for you changes. Commit your changes every time you complete a feature or fix a bug and you'll have a nice way to rollback if you make a mistake somewhere.

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