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Dreamweaver to Textmate 9
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Three months ago I decided that Its time for me to move over from Dreamweaver code panel to Textmate. I only use Dreamweaver because I’m so familiar with it and Macromedia (adobe) products. Here are my thoughts over the last few months in lovely list form.
- First impression are that its very very simplistic. No fancy interface etc.
- Spell checker come’s in handy
- I’m missing Dreamweaver’s CSS helpful predictive code.
- Missing the quick inserts like the html comment code snippet, makes me actually learn it.
- Love that it only takes seconds for textmate to load up
- Load Dreamweaver back up for the sitewide search and replace feature
- Love XMLMATE, so handy
- Nicky at Flame says, “I love how it remembers which part of the code you were at last when you re-open a page”
Download it and make your own mind up.
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Jim Fuller says...
there is code completion for css, just check out the css bundle that comes with textmate.
cheers, Jim
Comment post on 11/05 at 07:41 PM
Tim Van Damme says...
Try the combination of TextMate + CSSEdit. They’re a killer-combo! http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/
Comment post on 12/04 at 08:47 AM
Grant says...
Hi Ian.
I’m not sure what the “html comment code snippet” is in Dreamweaver, but Textmate does have extensive support for quite complex snippets, which I think will do what you’re after.
The HTML bundle contains many pre-built snippets, but you can also create your own, and assign hot keys or quick access shortcuts. For example, if your documentis set to be recognised as HTML (by selecting it from the Language menu at the bottom of the open documentor saving with the .html extension), you can type “doctype” and hit tab to be presented with a list of doctype snippets that you can then insert.
Comment post on 12/04 at 11:13 PM
Levi says...
Oh man, if you haven’t checked out Coda...you don’t know what you’re missing. I switch from Dreamweaver to Coda a while back and haven’t gone back.
Comment post on 12/19 at 12:06 PM
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Coda’s missing a couple of big features for me - most importantly is site-wide find and replace - and that stops me using it full time.
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You can do a sitewide search/replace in Textmate… Apple+Shift+F. I just drag a whole site folder onto the textmate icon in the dock and that’s just as good as Dreamweaver for me!
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