BBEdit Zen Coding

[Watts Martin]

While I know this won't address the complaints people have about BBEdit 10's changes that boil down to "I don't want to learn a new way to do things," if you're doing a lot of HTML work in BBEdit it's definitely worth checking out Zen Coding.

http://www.angelwatt.com/coding/zen-coding_bbedit.php

Using it, you can type something like

ul.nav>li*3

And press Ctrl-Z, and have it turned into

<ul class="nav">
    <li></li>
    <li><##></li>
    <li><##></li>
</ul>







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Watts Martin <lay...@gmail.com>

I haven't been a BBEdit user as long as other folks here, I know -- I used it for a couple years in the early 2000s, switched to Godot's Own Editor and only came back to BBEdit with version 9.6 -- but with Zen Coding I have almost *never* used BBEdit's GUI tools. I'll admit that BBEdit 10's, while prettier, don't seem to particularly be improvements, but y'know, maybe that makes this a good time to learn something *else* new. :) I don't think the Zen Coding system for BBEdit is quite up to date, though, so I may look into turning it into a package.

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