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Am I missing something about Coda? Can it do this as well???

If you’re working with an external style sheet (or even one that’s saved as a flat file from EE’s template engine) then unfortunately no, you can’t view the changes in Coda until you save the file.

Panic is actually working on making it easier to work with external CSS. Check this out: http://www.panic.com/coda/developer/learning/preview.php

If you’re working with an external style sheet (or even one that’s saved as a flat file from EE’s template engine) then unfortunately no, you can’t view the changes in Coda until you save the file.

nice feature, but again, not a deal breaker for me. how hard is it to command s? not very.

nice feature, but again, not a deal breaker for me. how hard is it to command s? not very.

Except it doesn’t work all the time. Even Panic is aware of the shortcoming. Instant and always is better than keystrokes and sometimes, I guess.

it’s never been issue for me and i’ve been using from day one, though i do know others have experienced problems. must be all that clean living. any who, coda’s not perfect by any means, but very refreshing for someone that made the switch from dreamweaver’s bloat. don’t get me wrong, there are still times that i will open up cssedit for a quick troubleshoot session but it’s lack of html editing capabilities make it some what frustrating to me. thank goodness for firebug.

As a newbee using EE I first went with the TM + CSSedit + ExpanDrive combo, saving the templates as files in EE. But it was sooo slow. Switching to TM (from the browser, finder or CSSedit) and it took 5-10 seconds before I could write something. And saving took about 3-4 seconds.

Using Coda and it’s ftp I can either download the file (one click) and then upload it again (one click) or switch to “Remote”, working directly on the server – with almost no delay.

So at the moment, Coda-way is My Way 😉

//magnus

Magnus,

By the way, welcome to ExpressionEngine!

Magnus,

By the way, welcome to ExpressionEngine!

Thanks! Feels great to be here 😊

//magnus

I’m just going to chime in for the fun of it.  My workflow at the moment:

1) Textmate — http://macromates.com/
2) Transmit — http://www.panic.com/transmit/ — (with project plus and ee addons)
3) Versions — http://versionsapp.com/

I know Coda can do all of this, but I feel these apps do their jobs well, plus Textmate works with Transmit out of the box. I’m also giving Espresso a crack at the moment but it doesn’t feel quite right just yet.

Don’t know if it is still relevant—or relevant at all, but I don’t believe it’s been mentioned in this post anywhere. You can in Coda have CSSEdit launch by control-clicking a remote CSS file—whatever the file extension. When you do, CSSEdit launches with the remote file in a window.

When you save the CSS in CSSEdit, the file automatically updates remotely, through Coda, in real time—you can see this by saving in CSSEdit wth the Coda file manager not obscured by the CSSEdit window.

Everything updates on the spot. To have CSSEdit launch and integrate with Coda the way I just described, it suffices to add CSSEdit as External editor for CSS in the Preferences.

I am sure all of you know this, because I am absolutely a zero when it comes to programming, scripting and coding, but as I did not see it mentioned anywhere, I thought I’d add it anyway, just in case you weren’t aware…

I actually found another way to code CSS direct in Coda.

When you have your templates listed in Coda’s file manager, open a stylesheet in Edit mode. Change to CSS mode. While in CSS mode, change the file extension to “.css”. The CSS mode window will immediately recognise the file as CSS.

Change the extension back to “.php”. The CSS mode window keeps recognising the file as CSS as long as it remains open in Coda. Once you close the tab, the recognition is gone and you need to apply the trick with the extensions again.

Hope this helps!

Well, I thought I had made my mind up 😊 But I’m flip-flopping too much. For regular good old PHP I have the last couple of weeks jumped between Coda, TM, NetBeans, Zend Studio and Aptana. That is bad 😉

I want to use just one (plus CSS edit for style sheets) for both EE, PHP and HTML. Actually I dislike the Eclipse, but it has it’s good points when creating my own classes. Coda have the “best” GUI. I sent my wish-list to Panic, and it seems like a future (next?) version will have better php support 😊

At the moment I’m doing some Codeigniter tutorials in Textmate – so far, so good 😊

Regards, Magnus

I really need to step my game up! Not even close to using it’s full potential.

Agreed. I’ve been using Coda for a year now, and I’m not even close to reaching it’s full potential.

I actually found another way to code CSS direct in Coda.

When you have your templates listed in Coda’s file manager, open a stylesheet in Edit mode. Change to CSS mode. While in CSS mode, change the file extension to “.css”. The CSS mode window will immediately recognise the file as CSS.

Change the extension back to “.php”. The CSS mode window keeps recognising the file as CSS as long as it remains open in Coda. Once you close the tab, the recognition is gone and you need to apply the trick with the extensions again.

Hope this helps!

Actually this came up a while back and I contacted the Coda folks. They have since provided the ability to change the syntax mode for any file you have. So to load a CSS file from EE that is a “save as template” which has the PHP extension, go to Text/Syntax Mode and change it to CSS. You can now use regular CSS editing including autocomplete.

Pretty cool

You should do a top 10 of Coda tips to improve workflow. Even real basic stuff, I’m sure I am missing out on some obvious stuff, I’ve probably not even got basic preferences sorted out to be honest. I still jump in between Coda and Textmate (another program I’m not using to it’s fullest   :down: ).

I would love to see something like this.  I agree with another poster in this thread, that no matter what app you are using, you are probably no where close to using it to its full potential

for all us Coda-Users: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/136814/