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Coda
Coda 2.0
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One-window web development app.   Demo ($99)
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Coda is a powerful Web editor that puts everything in one place. An editor. Terminal. CSS. Files.With Coda 2, we went beyond expectations. With loads of new, much-requested features, a few surprises, and a seriously refreshed UI, this update is, truly, major.

Features:
  • Integrated file browser.
  • Fully-featured text editor.
  • CSS editor.
  • Preview.
  • Built-in terminal.
  • Complete set of references.
What's New
Version 2.0:
  • Better User Interface
    • Visual Tabs. Find files quickly, and see more tabs at once.
    • Customizable Sidebar. Put your favorite, powerful Coda tools in the sidebar dock.
    • Streamlined Workflow. You'll always know what you're looking at.
    • Code Focus. Hide the sidebar, or go full-screen, and get work done.
  • Better Text Editing
    • Code Folding. Finally.
    • Smart Complete. Autocomplete your custom variables + functions.
    • Automatic Indentation
    • Smarter Automatic Closing Tags
    • Tab Key Text-Shifting
    • One-Press Character Wrapping
  • Better File Management
    • Git. In addition to SVN, now you can manage source with GIT.
    • Complete File Management. FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and S3, with a Transmit interface.
    • Transmit Twin-Turbo Engine. Some of the fastest file transfer in the industry.
    • Path Bar Browsing. Click a path bar segment for an instant file list.
    • Open Quickly. Pop it open, type a few characters, and find what you're looking for.
    • Group Folders Above Files. A very popular request.
  • Better Clips
    • Multiple Placeholders. Quickly tab between the bits that need input.
    • Dynamic Placeholders. Automatically fill in dates, URL's, text selections, and more.
    • Insertion Points. Put the cursor at the right place, every time.
    • Import/Export.
  • Better Sites
    • Groups. Drag related sites into a site board.
    • List View. See even more sites at a glance.
    • iCloud Sites + Clips Sync. Even with Diet Coda on your iPad.
  • Better Design
    • Revolutionary CSS Pops. GUI pop-ups help with the hardest CSS as you code.
    • Live Changes. See your CSS changes affect your page real-time.
    • iPad / iPhone Preview. Shrink down your preview to just the right size.
  • Better MySQL
    • Built-In MySQL Editor. Without leaving Coda, administer your site's database with ease.
    • Edit Structure or Content
    • Run Arbitrary Queries
  • Better Everything
    • Improved Live Hints. As you type HTML, JS, or PHP, quick reference can appear in the sidebar.
    • CSS Styles in Code Navigator
    • Code Navigator Filtering and Sorting
    • All-New Books
    • Places
    • Better Ruby Support
    • Skip Files Rules
    • Improved HTML and CSS Validation
    • Easier Theme Editing
    • Full-Screen Mode
    • Labels
    • Quick Look
    • Plugin API Improvements
    • Much, Much More

    And introducing: AIRPREVIEW

    It's magic. Get our brand-new app, Diet Coda, exclusively for your iPad. Pair it with Coda 2 on your desktop. Then, watch your mind blow.

    Your iPad now becomes a live preview window as you work on your web pages on your Mac.

    Make a few tweaks, hit save, and watch as your iPad automatically refreshes. Pages are served from your Mac and rendered on your iPad, so you're getting a true mobile preview. Put your iPad to good use while you work!

    (And that's not the half of it: Diet Coda is a full-featured remote web editor on your iPad, perfect for making quick fixes on the go!)

Version 2.0:
  • Better User Interface
    • Visual Tabs. Find files quickly, and see more tabs at once.
    • Customizable Sidebar. Put your favorite, powerful Coda tools in the sidebar dock.
    • Streamlined Workflow. You'll always know what you're looking at.
    • Code Focus. Hide the sidebar, or go full-screen, and get work done.
  • Better Text Editing
    • Code Folding. Finally.
    • Smart more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later



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Coda User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 2.x:
(13)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
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Cgntoonartist reviewed on 25 May 2012
I have to disagree with some of you. I am very disappointed with Coda2. It doesn't even do code formatting and other basic functions. The UI is nice, but it's lacking in substance.
It's also very buggy.

I am sure that Panic will keep working on it to make it better, but as it stands, is a NO for me.
[Version 2.0]


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Maclover1.1 reviewed on 25 May 2012
Okay.. now having been on it for quite a few hours since yesterday.. I'll have to say I think Panic are kings of Mac interface design, it looks good and is in my opinion quite practical and lean.

Two things I'd like:

1/
Like in Web Editor (by CoffeeCup.. underrated but new I guess) an AMAZING FEATURE to me: when you go over an element in your preview window (it has a very smart preview mode or navigate mode) it actually highlights both the html and css code directly.. in their respective code windows.. Better than X-Ray or Web Inspector or Firebug.. AND THAT MY FRIENDS.. IS THE ONE THING THAT WOULD MAKE CODA 100% PERFECT IMO !!!

2/
a Firebug Plugin (there is Firebug Light for Safari so I guess that could be ported ?) and an Xray plugin.
[Version 2.0]


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Leon van Schie reviewed on 25 May 2012
Coda was great, but it just got brilliant!

We use Coda for the development of all our software products, and we have been doing so since 2008. We've built an entire Web-to-Print solution (4WEB) solely in Coda and some parts in XCode. It just offers the best price/performance ratio and is in my humble opinion the most advanced editor out there!

The only thing I can find so far, that doesn't work well, is the changing of the colors in the Coda preferences. Spinning beach balls all over. But I assume that the guys at Panic will fix that in no-time. Overall, 5 out of 5!
[Version 2.0]


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Stormchild commented on 24 May 2012
I really wanted to love Coda 2, and it's obvious that an insane amount of hard work and love went into it, but it looks like I'll be sticking with BBEdit. Too many aspects of the all-in-one approach are based on assumptions that don't fit the way I work, or the things I work on.

Basically, Coda is great if you're just working on plain, static HTML files that aren't part of a content management system and don't involve any kind of server-side code like PHP, but as soon as you start dealing with any kind of complexity, Coda's integration starts to fall apart.

It's a shame, because I love the idea of using a single integrated tool, but it's just not flexible enough for any of the work I do. The text editor is the most critical part, and it still falls well short of what BBEdit can do — which is understandable, really, since BBEdit is far more mature, but it does call into question the idea of building everything into one app when the individual pieces aren't competitive with the individual apps they're supposed to replace.

The code folding is finicky and doesn't work properly most of the time; it's not correctly parsing even relatively simple HTML documents (which BBEdit has no problem with). The CSS 'pops' seem needlessly difficult to access, requiring a double-click in exactly the right spot to show the available 'pops', and *another* double-click to open it. If it takes four clicks just to get in there, I might as well just edit the text value myself. I'd probably only ever use the color picker (and BBEdit already lets me edit colors with the standard OS X color picker, so…).

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like about Coda 2. The reference panel is fantastic. The built-in MySQL tool is really nice (hopefully they'll expand it to support Postgres and other DBMS in the future). I love a lot of what they've done here, but the trouble with an integrated solution is that it tends to succeed or fail as a whole, and for me, there are a few critical parts that bring down the whole ship.

I'm gonna spend another few hours playing with it to see if I can make it work, but like I said, it looks like I'll end up sticking with BBEdit and the handful of other apps I use.
[Version 2.0]

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Tomy_doe replied on 25 May 2012
Is this something that the AppStore and the ioS-sation of MacOSX does to apps? More clicks, more colours, more drag-an-drop feels like dumbing it down. I will try it for some time and give it a fair chance but I still like my tools which I use at the moment better. I have a great tool for MySQL (SequelPro), so wasn't really missing that feature either.
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ylluminate commented on 24 May 2012
:( Really would like to see HAML & CoffeScript support. Coda could be especially nice for Node.js development if CoffeScript support were added for those of us using that heavily with Node.
[Version 2.0]


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Drtyrell969 reviewed on 24 May 2012
Seriously? Is there a conspiracy to destroy everything that's great on the Mac? First BBEdit completely destroys their product and can't read user feedback from all the self congratulating backslaps, and now my refuge in Panic software has been lobotomized.

Coda 2? Yeah, thanks for making my life more difficult. I just LOVE me some CSS memorization. Thanks for taking out all the CSS tags that I loathe remembering. At this point Notepad on the Windows platform has as much intelligence as Coda's CSS editor. Bring back a visual panel to the right of a CSS sheet. First pane, CODE, Second pane, EXAMPLE, Third pane VISUAL EDITOR.

I will not be buying this version. Coda 1.7.5 is damn near perfect as is. A little behind on the CSS side, but overall, less clicks to get the job done.

Coda 2 has created mountains of clicks and drags just to do basic work. This is what happens when pragmatic programmers design user interfaces. You either have the talent or you don't. Microsoft anyone?

Little secret Panic: COUNT THE CLICKS.

Count the clicks to accomplish work in Coda 1.7.5, then count the clicks to do the same work in 2.0. Dreadful increase in work to use your product, and thus a drastic reduction in productivity for customers.

Someone said they felt like they've been "kicked in the gut." That about sums it up. And before you go the Barebones software defensive route, this isn't a lack of customers embracing the future. This is sheer mathematics of increased labor to use your product. Time to press UNDO.
[Version 2.0]


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+187
Maclover1.1 commented on 24 May 2012
NO LIVE PREVIEW WHEN IN CSS...

Almost perfect for my use.. EXCEPT.. still no live preview when working in CCS.. so I could give it four stars.. almost five.. but since I won't use it and I WILL STICK TO ESPRESSO.. I will not grade it at all.

Of course I can use Live Reload.. except that means I need to save every time I want to see a change.. with Espresso I don't' have to and I really like that.
[Version 2.0]

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Maclover1.1 replied on 24 May 2012
On a contrasting note to some of what I read below.. I actually find the interface is good. Nice to be able to put the sidebar to the right (I wish ALL Mac software would allow that.. I'm right-handed.. wow.. what a concept.. finally people are getting it.
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Hiredgun469 replied on 24 May 2012
I thought the same thing. I clicked preview and it preview the actual code. But then I made a second window to the right and previewed the html file I was working on. Now on the left when I make changes to the CSS, it updates the look on the right side with the HTML. Kinda sucks we have to do it that way but it works. I have to do the same thing in Espresso. I'm only demoing the new Coda 2, and am trying to figure out what am I gaining over Espresso? Who's faster at updating their software to keep up with updated languages? Who has cheaper updates? Who has a more seamless integration with getting the job done without too much hassle?
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Maclover1.1 replied on 24 May 2012
YEEHAH !!!!!!!! Thanks HiredGun.. !!!
IF you were a DJ I'd say you saved my Life ;-) I can now proceed in really trying this new version for a few days !

I ALSO FOUND ANOTHER PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT IS QUITE COOL !
I'm also trying WEB EDITOR from COFFEECUP (only of.. I find all these softs pretty cheap compared to say Adobe MonsterHouse so I think they all deserve support to progress come up with the best of the best.
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Hiredgun469 replied on 24 May 2012
You are welcome. I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but I think I might. I gotta quit wasting time thinking about it and just do it... But then again I could upgrade my Espresso to version 2 for $40 I think. Oh, I hate decisions.
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Hiredgun469 replied on 24 May 2012
I did it. I bought it. Done. My brain can relax now. Coda good.
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archeopteryx reviewed on 24 May 2012
I really want to like Coda 2 as I have been exclusively using Coda 1.7.x for the last two years. Last night I downloaded a copy from the App Store and jumped in to see the new features.
I am now left feeling like someone kicked me in the gut. I guess I would say Coda 2 is heading in a different direction than my web development. No syntax support for Haml, Coffeescript.
Code folding doesn't work for these either types unless you manually select a block and fold. The preview feature doesn't work for a Rails based site.
So then, download the demo and take it for a spin, but make sure it fits your needs. If it does, you will probably love it, otherwise you may have outgrown it. I immediately purchased a copy of Chocolat (itself still in beta) and am planning on saying goodbye to Coda. I feel like I am losing a friend.
[Version 2.0]


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Morannon reviewed on 24 May 2012
I wanted to buy Coda 2 and started testing it today. Shortly: Coda 2 is a really pleasant html editor with a lot of functionality you don't want to miss. What I really appreciate is that Coda 2 is a real time saver: Its autocomplete function works fine and without hassle.
Nevertheless I have one big complaint: Coda 2 misses the WYSIWYG CSS editor that Coda 1 once owned. The new CSS editor of Coda presumes that you already know all availabe CSS attributes. This is a huge step backwards and prevents me from buying Coda 2 – as low as the introductery price may be.
[Version 2.0]

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Uncle_zed replied on 24 May 2012
I was really waiting for coda 2 to buy it finally, what a dissapointment for me. I also miss the visual CSS editing. I also am not a big fan o the new UI. It feels mor clutterd and taking to much space ( the path bar, thmbnails bar (but it can be made small luckyly), I think it is now turned more to power coder, as I am graphic designer and small coder, think I will have to look someware else.
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Star-Affinity commented on 24 May 2012
That's the kind of tab previews I'd like to have in Safari (and other browsers)! Preferably right or left of the window to not take too much vertical screen estate.

I know OmniWeb has this, but it's not being developed anymore. :(

Sorry for being a bit off-topic. :)
[Version 2.0]

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Star-Affinity replied on 24 May 2012
Oh, it seems OmniWeb is being developed somewhat (last update was in December) but I suspect it's not as up-to-date with WebKit as Safari and Chrome.(?)
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Nontroppo replied on 24 May 2012
Opera has supported visual tabs for a while, simply drag down on the bottom of the tab bar to size previews to teste, can place on any side too...
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Kendall Hopkins had trouble on 16 Jun 2010
I'm finding that this latest version of Coda isn't finding files when I use the quick open dialog (it used to). Is there a place to download 1.6.11 in the mean time?
[Version 1.6.11]


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Shock-J had trouble on 19 Jan 2010
WARNING.. DO NOT UPGRADE TO 1.6.9 IF YOU ARE USING SOURCE CONTROL! Just release today (1/19/10), latest version makes all your source controlled site folders under svn undetectable (it's like it can no longer see the invisible ".svn" folders). Hold off upgrading and wait for fix.
[Version 1.6.8]

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Shock-J replied on 19 Jan 2010
And just like that, it's fixed. 1.6.10 is released within hours with a fix. Now that's what I'm talking about!! Nice work Panic!!
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stonevil had trouble on 03 Dec 2007
still have problem with ftp aliases.
so I can't use it. :(
[Version 1.1]

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everyday software replied on 04 Dec 2007
Please contact Panic support at coda@panic.com so we can work with you to fix this issue.
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Doug S. had trouble on 08 Jul 2007
Is there a way to preview .php files without running a server environment locally? So far the only way to do it is if I run MAMP Pro when I go to preview.
[Version 1.0.3]

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meatmcguffin replied on 22 Jul 2007
Not using only Coda iteself by the look of it.

Panic - Please have a word with the guys in charge of MAMP to see if they'll let you incorporate it's awesomeness
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Doug S. replied on 22 Jul 2007
Indeed. I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to pay a little more (considering how good Coda is it's very cheap already) if you added such functionality as the ability to run your files locally even if they were PHP.
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stonevil had trouble on 16 Jun 2007
have problem with ftp aliases.
[Version 1.0.3]



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anx rated on 26 May 2012

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Picodom rated on 25 May 2012

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Ladydarby rated on 25 May 2012

[Version 2.0]



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3mboli rated on 24 May 2012

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Quiiick rated on 24 May 2012

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Uncle_zed rated on 24 May 2012

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cafaidy rated on 29 Mar 2012

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ProjectBuilders rated on 20 Mar 2012

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Genoma rated on 23 Jan 2012

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tillkruess rated on 06 Jan 2012

[Version 1.7.5]


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Version Downloads:1,143
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License:Demo
Date:24 May 2012
Platform:Intel
Price: $99.00
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Coda is a powerful Web editor that puts everything in one place. An editor. Terminal. CSS. Files.With Coda 2, we went beyond expectations. With loads of new, much-requested features, a few surprises, and a seriously refreshed UI, this update is, truly, major.

Features:
  • Integrated file browser.
  • Fully-featured text editor.
  • CSS editor.
  • Preview.
  • Built-in terminal.
  • Complete set of references.
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