Show floor video: Panic's Coda provides one-stop Web authoring

Panic's Coda?

I has it! :p

Joey - when I use Coda, I maximize my window to the full width of the screen, and split the view in to two tabs - code on the left, preview on the right. It works quite well. I'd like to also have the option of having a floating preview window that can be moved around, but with a widescreen MBP, it's not really an issue.

The three things I really need Coda to have before I can favor it over TextMate are 1) Site wide search and replace, 2) SVN integration, and 3) Moving text clips storage out of the Preferences file and in to the Application Support folder, where they can be backed up properly.

#3 is important, because until this happens, I refuse to spend the time importing useful text clips in to Coda, because there is no way to back them up apart from the preferences file (and if that gets corrupted, you're hosed).

Any word on how long the promotion lasts

I also own Coda and use it for PHP web development, and I have to agree that the cmd+] instead of tab and cmd+shift+z instead of cmd+y are slightly annoying, especially when you forget and use those in other apps that do it the standard "normal" way. :)

I also completely agree that the only major functionality that is missing is search/replace across all files. I also own TextMate, and that's basically all I use it for when it comes to web design.

C'mon Coda ... cmd+shift+f ... It'd be awesome! :)

All of you WYSIWYG whiners need to understand - Real men use a text editor. WYSIWYG produces bad code. Sorry, but there's no way around it. I used to be Dreamweaver user and I finally saw the light. Coda is a pretty good 1.0, and I use it quite a bit even though I still favor TextMate for most coding tasks.

WYSIWYG editors are like security blankets - they make you think that they are doing you a favor and making things easier for you, but you just look like a baby when you admit to all of your friends that you still carry one around.

Seriously, the above is spoken tongue in cheek. Sort of. Or maybe not. Anyway - use a text editor and drop the WYSIWYG dependency. Your code will thank you.

I use coda for all my PHP coding. I have no use for a WYSIWYG editor and coda does a brilliant job of php recognition as well as function suggestion based on what you're typing. I also love its publish features for quick editing and uploading of files.

Really my only gripes with it are these:

You can't highlight text and press tab to tab the whole line. Instead you have to highlight the text and press cmd+[ or cmd+] to tab/untab text. it's just a departure from the norm.

Also, CMD+shift+right-arrow is often used to highlight a single line of text. CMD+shift+right-arrow selects to the end of the document. left arrow is the reverse.

cmd-z is undo, but instead of the normal cmd-y for redo you have cmd-shift-z. Small annoyance there too.

Overall it's a great app. I could get used to these changes but I'm constantly using both Flex Builder and Coda so the abrupt change can take you by surprise when you accidentally select from your cursor position to the end of the document or something like that.

Hey guys, is it just me, or is the current vogue for video clips turning this blog from a quick-loading must-view into a sluggish nightmare I'm turning to far less often? And I hate to think what it's like for anyone not on broadband. (Yes, they still do exist...)

I really like code, but for it to be my full-time editor, it needs to be able to:

- change file references across the site automatically (i.e. if you rename a file, all instances of it are updated)
- site-wide search/replace
- simple WYSISYG editor, for just flowing in paragraphs, bold, italic, etc.

I really want to dump GoLive... please help me! :)

Thanks for the coupon code! :-)

Wrong video ;(