What is the best HTML/CSS editor for Mac OS?
Posted Jan 21, 2010, 5:14 PM UTC
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I'm a big fan of Espresso, though I bought it at $20, not the current $80:
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+1 for Espresso. It also has a great plugin system (called "sugars") and comes by default with zen-coding and a rather practical FTP client. You can see zen-coding and espresso in action on vimeo
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TextMate is still my editor of choice for Mac. It's a general code editor, but I've always worked faster in it than any other editor.
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Agreed. TextMate is by far the most productive editor I've used.
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I wish textmate allows tabbed editing outside of projects. I don't like having a few files open and trying to switch between them, but I don't want to make a project either, that's too much for what I need.
Also, editing large projects is very very slow, even with most files excluded.
Overall though, textmate is my favorite.
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How do I quickly toggle between open documents in Textmate?
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Alt+Cmd+Left/Rightcycles between tabsAlt+1/2/3/4/etcfor the nth tab.Cmd+tfor "goto file"
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Command+~ if not in tabs.
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win
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MacVim is one of the best, if you're willing to learn it. You can install plugins and configure it to your heart's content.
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BBEdit and CSSEdit are great.
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Coda, pure and simple. It also replaces my FTP Client.
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I just asked this yesterday, and got a lot of good responses:
http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/as5y8/dear_reddit_im_about_to_buy_my_first_mac_after/
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I use TextWrangler and CSSEdit.
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Still an old school Dreamweaver guy myself.
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Komodo of course. Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Netbeans PHP, even if you don't do PHP (yet!)
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My vote for CSSEdit, it's worth every cent you'd pay for it. Combined with Textmate (for HTML) is the webdeveloper's dream.
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Steve Jobs has decided that you don't need to edit HTML/CSS on a Mac. It is more important to keep the product design clean.
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I go back and forth between TextMate and Coda. Coda has just about everything you need in one package: You can edit manually, preview, tweak most CSS settings from a nice interface, and even SSH into your server. It's a nice tool, but sometimes it's overkill.
TextMate is a powerful text-editor with syntax highlighting and much more for HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, SQL, you name it. It's got pretty much everything you could reasonably ask for in a text-editor, and it's easily extensible, so new technologies like Zen-Coding and the like are supported by the community almost immediately.
+1 for Coda
Another vote for Coda. I use it to start and finish every project, with the odd assistance from TextWrangler (Better functionality in some cases).
A big thing for Coda in my case is the Plugin Creator, and the plugins themselves. They can be so useful at times that I really can't imagine using a different editor.
I've been using Coda for about 2 years steady. A new release is due soon from what I gather.
+1 for TextMate
Coda + Zen-Coding here...
Yeah, I forgot to mention that Coda has a great plug-in system as well and a great community surrounding that.
+1 Textmate. One of the best text editors I've used. There is some limitations to the tab auto complete though but I love the program.
+1 for Coda