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Adobe Brackets: An open-source code editor for HTML/CSS/JavaScript

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Re: Adobe Brackets: An open-source code editor for HTML/CSS/JavaScript

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Post by toni »

samirahmed wrote: post #9
RoryH wrote: post #8

Would be interested to see a demo or screenshots also!

Certainly agree. Not even a link to a static project description page (as far as I could tell) I couldn't find a single picture with a quick browse through. (I know this is superficial) but no screenshot/screencast/videos is bad marketing and doesn't get me as excited about a project

Here is a quick screenshot[1] from the main window. It's still far away from being really useful, but as an experiment, it looks decent.

I personally recommend Eclipse Orion[2], it's not as stylish as Brackets but is fully functional and you can even import repositories from github.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/7Wa6p.png

[2] http://www.eclipse.org/orion/getstarted.php (choose "Download and Install Orion on your localhost")

Re: Adobe Brackets: An open-source code editor for HTML/CSS/JavaScript

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

tzs wrote: post #5
vamega wrote: post #3

It doesn't work on Linux. The brackets-app only has code for windows and mac.

It's HTML, CSS, and JavaScript running on top of CEF. CEF works on Linux, so it should be pretty easy for someone to get Bracket running on Linux.

For those who don't know, CEF is apparently this: http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

I had just wondered last week if something nice like this existed.

Re: Adobe Brackets: An open-source code editor for HTML/CSS/JavaScript

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

toni wrote: post #11
samirahmed wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Certainly agree. Not even a link to a static project description page (as far as I could tell) I couldn't find a single picture with a quick browse through. (I know this is superficial) but no screenshot/screencast/videos is bad marketing and doesn't get me as excited about a project

Here is a quick screenshot[1] from the main window. It's still far away from being really useful, but as an experiment, it looks decent. I personally recommend Eclipse Orion[2], it's not as stylish as Brackets but is fully functional and you can even import repositories from github. [1] http://i.imgur.com/7Wa6p.png [2] http://www.eclipse.org/orion/getstarted.php (choose "Download and Install Orion on your localhost")

I tried to compare CodeMirror, Ace and Orion a while back. Orion... well, it certainly feels like it's made by the Eclipse team. The splash page is flashy, but Orion itself looks and feels terribly clunky.

I think Ace (part of Cloud9) looks nicer and as far as I could tell, did everything Orion does. It also will import Git repos. Did you find anything that Orion does particularly well or better than besides Git repos?

Re: Adobe Brackets: An open-source code editor for HTML/CSS/JavaScript

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Post by toni »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #14
toni wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here is a quick screenshot[1] from the main window. It's still far away from being really useful, but as an experiment, it looks decent. I personally recommend Eclipse Orion[2], it's not as stylish as Brackets but is fully functional and you can even import repositories from github. [1] http://i.imgur.com/7Wa6p.png [2] http://www.eclipse.org/orion/getstarted.php (choose "Download and Install Orion on your localhost")

I tried to compare CodeMirror, Ace and Orion a while back. Orion... well, it certainly feels like it's made by the Eclipse team. The splash page is flashy, but Orion itself looks and feels terribly clunky. I think Ace (part of Cloud9) looks nicer and as far as I could tell, did everything Orion does. It also will import Git repos. Did you find anything that Orion does particularly well or better than besides Git repo…

I agree that Cloud9 looks very stylish compared to Orion. One thing i like about Orion is comment and code folding features. I also liked how easy it was to just download and run Orion, as opposed to "building" cloud9 with all the dependancies and such.

But yeah, if you appreciate beauty, certainly going with cloud9 is the obvious choice.

Re: Adobe Brackets: An open-source code editor for HTML/CSS/JavaScript

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

toni wrote: post #16
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to compare CodeMirror, Ace and Orion a while back. Orion... well, it certainly feels like it's made by the Eclipse team. The splash page is flashy, but Orion itself looks and feels terribly clunky. I think Ace (part of Cloud9) looks nicer and as far as I could tell, did everything Orion does. It also will import Git repos. Did you find anything that Orion does particularly well or better than besides Git repo…

I agree that Cloud9 looks very stylish compared to Orion. One thing i like about Orion is comment and code folding features. I also liked how easy it was to just download and run Orion, as opposed to "building" cloud9 with all the dependancies and such. But yeah, if you appreciate beauty, certainly going with cloud9 is the obvious choice.

Cloud9's repo includes pre-built binaries, I've never built cloud9 personally. And both Ace and CodeMirror support code-folding.

I don't mean to nitpick, I'm working on something similar to these (with some important differences) and I would like to pick the "best" core editor. Like I said, is there anything else that Orion does better? I don't care about appearance, they're basically all customizable to an extent that they can be made it look identical. And for the most part, they all seem to support the same features (obviously CodeMirror is missing things like Git repos because it's only the browser-side of things)

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