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patrick j
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject: Coda 1.5 released |
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Hi
Coda has just had an update to 1.5 
If anyone is interested in web-site building/design then I think this is really an excellent text editor to have a look at.
Editing CSS on it is a joy!
http://www.panic.com/coda/
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Russell E. Owen
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: Re: Coda 1.5 released |
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In article <2008082722462816807-emailnotchecked@gmailcom>, patrick j <email.not.checked@gmail.com> wrote:
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Hi
Coda has just had an update to 1.5
If anyone is interested in web-site building/design then I think this is really an excellent text editor to have a look at.
Editing CSS on it is a joy!
http://www.panic.com/coda/
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It is nice in many ways and well worth a look. However, it has some of the limitations of SubEthaEdit (no surprise since it uses SubEthaEdit's editing engine) including:
- grep is weird -- lots of undocumented options (at least not documented by SubEthaEdit, maybe Coda has fixed this); I've never found a set of options that actually works the way I expect it to based on other text editors.
- No block selection (SubEthaEdit offers block editing and Coda presumably does also, but I find it clumsier than block selection).
Also some of Coda's find options (such as "in selection" are deeply buried and thus not easy to use. Apparently that's the price one pays for making find a toolbar instead of a dialog box -- which is a nice thing to do in many ways.
Note that BBEdit 9.0 also recently came out. It has an overhauled find/replace dialog box that I feel is a huge improvement over the old one. (Fans of the old one should look through the prefs; rumor has it you can get the old one back). In fact I hated the old one so much that I stopped using BBEdit years ago. I just switched back. I've never been happier to pay an upgrade fee.
No relation to either company; just a happy customer of one of them.
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patrick j
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: Re: Coda 1.5 released |
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On 2008-08-29 01:02:45 +0100, "Russell E. Owen" <rowen@u.washington.edu> said:
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It is nice in many ways and well worth a look. However, it has some of the limitations of SubEthaEdit (no surprise since it uses SubEthaEdit's editing engine) including:
- grep is weird -- lots of undocumented options (at least not documented by SubEthaEdit, maybe Coda has fixed this); I've never found a set of options that actually works the way I expect it to based on other text editors.
- No block selection (SubEthaEdit offers block editing and Coda presumably does also, but I find it clumsier than block selection). |
As a text editor it is limited in these respects. I use it because the CSS editing is imho really lovely using the interface.
I had used BBEdit for quite a while, but now I mostly use TextMate.
I haven't seen BBEdit 9, but TextMate has a non-modal Find/Replace dialogue of course and the fields for the Find and Replace expressions can be made very large. Those were the two problems I had with BBEdit.
The way that TextMate works is really innovative and being modularised using bundles a very wide range of capabilities and environments are suitable for it.
So, for web-site creation I now use:
Coda
TextMate
Xyle Scope
Xyle Scope is not an editor of course but for checking CSS it is really top class. It is a bit like the Firefox extension Firebug but offers some things like a columnar view for element hierarchy which I really like. As an aside I'm well aware that Firebug does things which Xyle Scope can't |
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