Comments on: Coda

By: demir fiyatlari

demir fiyatlari — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:48:31 +0000

My vote is for textmate too. Regards

By: Carey

Carey — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:08:33 +0000

I am also a Coda fan, although I have been a bit concerned recently… it has been over 6 months since the last update when before that they were quite frequent.
I would love to see it move forward with Search Scope, improve on syntax highlighting and a few other things.
But overall, very happy. My previous editor was Zend Studio on Windows.

By: Josh Iwata

Josh Iwata — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:34:32 +0000

Hey Paul, great review of Coda, I've been using it for over a year now and previously used DW for all my web design/development. I have been thrilled with the ease of use that Coda accomplishes with it's beautiful GUI, as well as the streamlined approach to the applications functionality. In my opinion one of the best features of Coda is the built in ftp client, that seamlessly and quickly synchronizes with your server. My last attempt at conversion would be to point out the great search functionality Coda provides, which makes searching and replacing in your document quick and easy. Good luck, cheers!

By: Matt Newboult

Matt Newboult — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:16:49 +0000

Has anyone tried Aptana (http://www.aptana.com/). It’s built on top of Eclipse which is rock solid. There’s a free version and a Pro version. A very nice editor with ftp etc. It’s written in Java so is available for Mac and PC.

By: Bryan Kulba

Bryan Kulba — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:27:12 +0000

I have been using both Textmate and Coda for the last few months and tend to open Textmate before Coda simply because of its simplicity. I'm not a Textmate power user, taking advantage of all the fancy short-cuts, etc, but the short-cuts i do use (css, etc) definitely speed up development. I think Textmate's simplicity has in fact improved my coding immensely. Coming from a Dreamweaver background, I miss the built-in ftp and the ease of connecting to databases, etc but can live without them.

By: Ben Dunkle

Ben Dunkle — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:37:03 +0000

I'm also on the quest for the ultimate editor, and Coda may do it, but multi-file search is essential. I'm playing around with Komodo Edit, it seems nice, it's free, and multi-platform: http://activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/komodo_edit.mhtml

By: Ben Spaulding

Ben Spaulding — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:56:33 +0000

Years ago I used GoLive CS2, followed by Dreamweaver 8, followed by Coda. I stuck with Coda for over a year and a half and loved it. Then about three weeks ago I decided to try something else, mostly for the sake of trying something else. First off was TextMate. Though a great piece of software, I am amazed that “the missing editor for the Mac” feels extremely un-Mac-ish. TextMate does have some sweet features, but I could not get over how foreign it felt. After a week and a half of TextMate I switched to Vim. Though it has a big learning curve, I have to say that I really enjoyed using Vim. It had everything that I liked in TextMate, but was integrated with the Terminal, which I was already comfortable with. With that, one might think I stayed with Vim, but not so. Just yesterday I switched back to Coda and it feels good to be home. If you are curious as to my reasoning and feelings regarding these different editors, I am currently writing a blog post on just that and it should be posted in the next week or so.

By: bb

bb — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:29:25 +0000

Based on the features you list I get the feeling you never bothered to try BBEdit! You'll probably still decide to go with Coda in the end but the features you list are more or less available in BBEdit. I haven't used any recent Dreamweaver versions but I have tried over a dozen windows text editors last year and BBEdit has a MUCH BETTER find/replace dialog than all of them.

By: Timmeh

Timmeh — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:08:59 +0000

Well I’m converted!
After seeing this post a downloaded the demo at the weekend and now just purchased it. I was using Dreamweaver before which did everything I need (and more), but this is just feels so much better and well thought out.
Dreamweaver as Shaun put it so well is ‘clunky’
Oh and not forgetting the price difference!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:29:52 +0000

I switched from clunky old Dreamweaver to Coda around a year ago and I can honestly say I have NEVER looked back.