Take a shot of Espresso 1.0

Today I've started the perl.sugar to enable at least syntax hilighting.

http://github.com/markuszeller/perl.sugar

Regards
Markus

Blog: http://markuszeller.com

I had high hopes for this, but Sugar development is cumbersome and time-consuming, which is difficult to justify when the app itself beyond the sugars is so simplistic. I'm sticking with TextMate, especially since it still has support for Perl and Template Toolkit pages, and it's hard to beat that for me right now.

I'm much more likely to create code completion in Perl for TextMate than to port the whole kit over to Espresso.

The one thing no one has mentioned that is a show stopper for me - version control (SVN, Git, CVS). Without this, it is simply a toy. I primarily operate from the CLI which encompasses access to these tools, but to make it a serious application it needs to have this built in.

GUI's for version control have become very good and it should not be hard to integrate this.

Coda is worthless. I haven't actually tried it out for myself, but my friend bought Coda and he said it was a less efficient version of the Terminal, CSSEdit, etc combined. He said he constantly had to use the mouse to change the mode as opposed to just Command-tabbing.

Reaching for your mouse is really irritating..

Espresso is a solid editor but I still think MacRabbit missed out on a great opportunity here by excluding CSSEdit's feature set. That said, here are my editor-specific problems with 1.0:

1. Live preview doesn't work from a local server.
2. Window settings are on a per file basis. Forget arranging the width of the navigator sidebar and the height of publish because you'll have to do it for every single file. Heck even the snippet type (standard/user) is per file.
3. No way to open up CSS files with CSSEdit from within the Espresso. You'll have to use Coda for that feature, I guess.
4. Sometimes tabs are tabs, sometimes they're files in a list. It depends on how you create them (and oddly selecting new tab isn't how you make a new tab.)

Other than that it's a great start. Hopefully it matures quickly into a tool that I can use on a daily basis. Until then I'm sticking with Coda.

Give them some time. This kind of "Studio" app takes a long time to finish. Plus, since it's aimed at designers/coders there is *no* way they can please everybody.

- Nick -

What is your goal? Basically Jungledisk backs up the Amazon's S3 on a schedule but only backs up changed items once the initial backup is complete. You could set the backup to occur every hour (which is about the same time period as time machine). Or are you looking for an instant solution that once a file is modified or added it is backed up instantly?

Or are you looking for a service that versions items like Time Machine?

not yet ready for production!

I was a beta tester for this... then they stopped sending me betas...
The end.

I just gave it a try and it's a good start. I like the navigator and the code folding which Coda is sorely missing. I also really like the theme they are using by default.

Unfortunately the lack of SVN integration will keep me from exploring or switching to the app any time soon :-o.