I use Dreamweaver and stay in the "Code View" state as well. I've just got used to the way Dreamweaver works, the way it auto-completes and the Syntax Highlighting. I've tried using other editors, but I guess I'm set in my ways of how I want the editor to act.
Eh, I just prefer editors/IDE's which allow me to run the current file; pretty much all of them have a way to call an external tool and display the results in a built-in console window. Mine isn't even a darling editor that's ever talked about here (Edit+), but it's trivial to set it up so that when I hit F4
it runs against PHP 5.4, F5
runs 5.5, etc., allowing me to test against multiple versions within seconds.
Just seems like a whole lot more trouble setting up a webpage just for testing, because surely you're not going to actually use it as an editor....right?