Does it have code collapse yet?
Brackets doesn't ship with code folding, but there's an extension that adds code folding. (I haven't the extension personally, so I can't comment on how well it works...)
Brackets, a code editor
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#82Does it have code collapse yet?
Brackets doesn't ship with code folding, but there's an extension that adds code folding. (I haven't the extension personally, so I can't comment on how well it works...)
Any particular reason for that? It seems like it should come standard, and it's what initially made me switch back to Sublime.
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#83Brackets is wonderful, but it's Brackets JS Completion vs Sublime Text multi-cursor behavior for me and the latter is too useful to give up.
Interesting! Multi-cursor is one of those things that I personally tended to use only from time-to-time when Sublime was my primary editor (I'm on the Brackets team, so you can guess what I use now). Regarding multi-cursor in Brackets: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/brackets-dev/FLMlU3P...
The most typical use is for me to abuse the heck out of command-d. This will select the current word (if none selected) and then each subsequent press of this command adds the next occurrence of the selected text to the selection. I also like the ability to use option-drag down a column for block selection when I have text from some source that needs a bit of munging on each line.
Thanks much for that link. I'll check it out.
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#84If I may ask the author(s): what was the motivation of writing this app for native platforms but making use of webkit-node or similar technologies and tools? This to me seems like it has become a popular technique for writing cross-platform applications, but it also seems like it has many drawbacks which make it an unattractive option, with the only advantage being that the authors already know CSS/JS/HTML and can le…
I wasn't there at the beginning, but I've been working on Brackets for a year. We want Brackets to be awesome for web developers and designers specifically. So, how cool is it to be able to extend the editor you use every day using the exact same tech you're already used to? (And, of course, you can edit Brackets extensions in Brackets...) This is likely part of the reason there are more than 200 extensions available…
That's a pretty cool idea actually.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Brackets doesn't ship with code folding, but there's an extension that adds code folding. (I haven't the extension personally, so I can't comment on how well it works...)
Any particular reason for that? It seems like it should come standard, and it's what initially made me switch back to Sublime.
I would expect us to ship code folding, but we just haven't gotten to it yet. Same for themes (for which there are also extensions that fill in the gaps).
It would be a great contribution to the project for people to pick up a feature like folding that ideally belongs in core and helps get it to "core quality" (unit tests, comments, etc.) It's possible that some extensions are already that good and we just don't know it.
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#86If any of the Brackets team is reading this .. THANK YOU ! For one of the most ergonomic editors I've ever used. I really can't explain it any other way, but everything just is where I expect it to be. And I was really surprised at the JavaScript auto-completing ! My plugin setup is only to add jsbeautify and JSONLint.
Thanks! We love to see feedback like this!
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are. Brackets was presented at a local js meetup a little more than a year ago; Edge code is one of the primary reasons why adobe is running this project.
So I don't understand, Brackets is their open source branch but Edge Code will be their officially supported release?
Brackets, the open source project, supplies the core of Edge Code which has added features that tie into Adobe services.
We want Brackets to be awesome and useful by itself, and to also provide the foundation for people who use the Creative Cloud.
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#88>> Live HTML Development >> As you code, HTML changes are instantly pushed to browser without having to save or reload the page. Who actually writes non-templated HTML any more?
I've gotta agree with you here. If you are a professional developer and are still writing non-templated html, I'd be surprised. I think it's crazy that all these tools keep coming out for handling vanilla html and css, while the development community is busy shooting miles ahead with far more powerful preprocessing. I'm working very heavily on convenience tools for advanced dev workflows, hopefully these will bring a…
On big projects I work on, front-end developers start from the PSD and do the HTML first (they just do some templates, not the whole site obviously).
Then the JS is either made by them (depending if they know JS) or by a JS specialist.
Then the programmers integrate the HTML in the "code/templates" (CMS, whatever).
We develop in different web technologies and front-end developers don't learn how to code server side code (either they don't want to, don't have time, whatever).
Depending on the templating engine and programming language and final product (CMS, etc), they can or cannot edit or fix their CSS right in the final code.
Sometimes they need the programmers to tell them where the templates that they want to change are, etc. Imagine a big projects with hundreds of different templates made by a programmer, the front-end dev doesn't necessarily know where to change his stuff and if he's going to cause a problem elsewhere.
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#89I downloaded the editor about two weeks ago. It's fun and easy to use. My only criticism is of the live editing feature. That's what drew me to the editor in the first place, but it seems to be very buggy. It stops updating the preview sporadically — and predictably, each time I open the JS Console. As a front-end dev, I can't really count on a preview that doesn't function with developer tools open. Having said all…
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#90As a dirty prototyping pseudo-dev, the one thing that keeps me using Coda is its native ftp/scp capabilities. I can open files on a remote server as if they were local and command-s saves them back there. Right now it seems that none of these other editors support that function. I know I can run ssh-fs or similar, but that requires much more setup.
Why don't you mount SFTP as a drive? That way you can use any app with remote files. I don't use mac but a quick search shows there are tools for that just like on Windows: https://www.google.com/search?q=mac+mounting+sftp
(ExpanDrive, WebDrive, MacFusion, Transmit, sshfs)