There are also some minor niggles regarding keyboard shorcuts - overall, it feels too mouse-driven, and besides the oh-so-US-centric use of Cmd- to switch tabs (which I’ve already switched to more friendly cursor-oriented settings via System Preferences), using Cmd- (which is faster and more intuitive for me) gives inconsistent results - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.Īnd, of course, I’d love to be able to navigate the UI a bit more using nothing but the keyboard - it’s a bit frustrating to switch to the Files tab and still have to click inside the tab to move the highlight around, or to switch to the editor or terminal and also have to click on it to get a working cursor.īut hey, it’s early days yet. My only overall criticism is that it doesn’t do much for you if your server backend is based on Python - sure, there’s a Python book in there, but if you use, say Django instead of Rails or whatever the PHP nerds are using these days, you’re out of luck 1. Remote file management also works fine, although I have a few site-specific issues with it (see below, under Diet Cola, er, Coda). I’d rather fancy a default keyboard shortcut for “commit all changes”, but that’s trivial to set up in System Preferences anyway. Git, by the way, is working out fine for me with it.
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And the change marking feature that seems to be derived from it will for sure save your bacon when you’re making small changes to someone else’s code and you don’t have source control set up. I’m also rather fond of its SubEthaEdit heritage, since it makes for amazing cooperative editing - it’s not something you’ll use every single day, but it makes it a lot easier to ask for help when you’re stuck with some irritating little issue. As many other things about editors and programming environments, it’s not a rational decision (heck, I use vim and I love it, so how can I be rational about editors?). It doesn’t do everything and won’t appeal to everyone, but the UI polish and tight integration of basic features makes it an acceptable compromise. So far, and besides some cognitive dissonance regarding the way I’m used to have code completion work, I’m rather enjoying it - code folding works sensibly (something I could never get working to my liking in TextMate), it supports most of the markup and programming languages I need on a day to day basis (except MultiMarkdown and LESS, but plugins for either should be popping up any second now - not an ideal solution, but alas), and, most importantly of all, it’s not getting in my way.
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I don’t care much about any of the current crop of Mac editors, so Coda seems like a pretty good option for all-around web development.
TextMate would ordinarily be my thing, but it’s stuck in limbo since goodness knows when and it gets tiresome to maintain coherent sets of bundles and miscellaneous settings across machines. I’ve long wished I had an excuse to get Coda, and Coda 2 came out at pretty much the right time - I’m currently doing an ungainly mix of HTML, CSS and server-side weightlifting, and as much as I love vim, a nice graphical editor can do wonders for your productivity. So here’s a quick review of Coda and Diet Coda for the impatient.
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