Panic Releases Coda - Grow Beautiful Code
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Panic, creator of Transmit and other delightful OS X software has released it’s new baby - Coda. Coda is a web development tool for coders, not a WYSIWYG editor, even though is has a handy preview tab (it uses the Safari engine). A first scan of the application makes it quite obvious that Coda has “borrowed” some features and interface details from the popular TextMate, wich is not a bad thing since TextMate is an all-time favourite text editor for Mac. Some other handy features are the built-in terminal, easy site publishing and an integrated FTP editor (bye bye Transmit).
One thing missing from most popular text editors like BBEdit, TextMate and the new member Coda is the possibility to customize shortcuts. Especially for all of us who don’t use American keybboards, the shortcut for indenting text using “[” and “]” is impossible and very annoying.
From the creators:
So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, running queries in Terminal, using a CSS editor, and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we realized. “And much cooler.”
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At 7:34 pm on May 4th, 2007 , BZ wrote:
Coda is great! The main negative is that it doesn’t have Tidy built in? Yikes…
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At 2:59 am on July 11th, 2007 , Frode Danielsen wrote:
Regarding your minor quibble with TextMate/Coda. First of all, the one thing obstructing us europeans from using “Indent Left” with cmd+[ is the global keyboard shortcut for turning zooming on/off in OS X. This can be disabled in System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts, which I have done since I never need switching zooming on/off.
On a more general basis, or if you don’t want to disable that specific shortcut, you can just add your desired overriding shortcuts in the same preference panel. This works for all cocoa based applications, which includes TextMate and Coda - but not BBEdit. Maybe that’s an explanation for BareBones adding their own feature for this?
And one more thing. I don’t know what you find Coda has “borrowed” from TextMate, but I’d rather think they’re “borrowed” from SubEthaEdit. Seeing as the text editing engine in Coda is licensed and based on SubEthaEdit’s engine.
Coda is a slick app which I’ll keep an eye on. TextMate rocks my socks. And I’ve got good memories with BBEdit. Just thought I’d add my thoughts and tips
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