Panic announced the 1.5 version of Coda yesterday, making a (kinda) huge leap from 1.1. The new version is full of good stuff for your favourite sexy powerhouse editor, including:
- Built-in version control. Yeah, you read that right. Commit, update and checkout to your heart’s content, all through Coda.
- Local multi-file search & replace. Amen.
- Custom books. Now you can add your own resources, complete with book cover image and all.
- Improved clips. You can now organize your clips in groups, as well as import and export them.
- You can now identify between local and remote copies of the same file at a glance, using the relevant icons.
- The almighty Sites are now sortable.
- A new action has been added, named “Reverse publish”, which allows you to download remote files to your local copy.
After hours I managed to set up version control with Coda, but mainly because I never sat down to do it properly, plus I had some permissions issues (as always).
The changes Coda 1.5 brings are all more than welcome, refreshing my idea of it quite a bit. Go Panic!
9 comments on this post
porcupine #1
27.Aug.08
Hooray!
Coda is great, but I really some things in there to work better/easier. I am going to downloaded it at once.
spdd #2
27.Aug.08
I tried Coda almost half a year ago. It was nice and all, but I seemed to have some problems with Greek characters while in code view. Was it just me or does Coda have problems with Greek? Would you really recommend it?
John Tsevdos #3
27.Aug.08
Sounds tempeting!!! I’m looking forward to see the built-in version control…
gterez #4
27.Aug.08
The code navigator and multi-file search & replace (and the unique version control integration on top of that) seem to make it -finally- take the edge over Dreamweaver & CSSEdit (I only miss the code formatting features).
Does anyone here use TextMate for editing web stuff? What’s your opinion?
Sugar #5
27.Aug.08
@spdd
What kind of problems? I use Coda almost exclusively and I’ve never run into anything like that.
@gterez
I only use Textmate when I’m into my “programming” mode. The whole editor environment makes it so soothing to the eyes. Coda is for HTML / CSS / subtle PHP, in my humble opinion.
spdd #6
27.Aug.08
@Sugar hmm… if I remember well, when I tried to code and inserted greek characters (say for content) it wouldn’t display them in code view, only in preview… I tried different fonts and encodings and couldn’t make it work… But then again, I didn’t give it a second chance, maybe it could be something simple, but I was in the middle of panic so I couldn’t spend much time figuring out what was wrong…
Sugar #7
27.Aug.08
@spdd
I coded the design of CSS3.gr in Coda and I had no problem with greek at all. I urge you to retry it, you won’t be disappointed
Coda + Consolas font for code view = designer bliss.
spdd #8
27.Aug.08
Already did, it seems to be working fine! I probably was doing something stupid in the first place! Thanks a lot Sugar!!!
BTW, Consolas font is cool for coding! Thanks again!
Dimitris #9
27.Aug.08
This looks promising from the creators of CSSEdit. http://macrabbit.com/espresso/
sign-up beta testers…
lovely site sugarenia…