I'm going to need a text editor for the project i'm working on. it
has to be a PHP-capable WYSIWYG(?) application or IDE. THere are text
editing packages that i can add on my machine.(RedHat9) I currently
have Emacs and vim-enhanced installed. i can also install XEmacs and
vim-X11. are any of these going to work for me or should i try
something else.

In the end i will need

MySQL (check)
Apache (check?)
PHP (check?)
web browser (check)
text editor (eh?)