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DESCRIPTION
Espresso is not a bunch of apps forcibly smashed together. Instead, we looked at the needs of modern web developers and streamlined their workflow into one focused app. Extremely powerful editing and searching, sleek projects, live preview (we make CSSEdit!), real publishing and extensive synchronization tools./P> Some features: The Art of Code
Why choose between beauty and power? Between features and speed? With Espresso, you don't have to. Elegant syntax highlighting, superior navigation, code folding, smart CodeSense, contextual text snippets, spell check, rich extensibility and raw speed: presenting a state-of-the-art text engine for code artists.
Navigator — much more than an ordinary symbol list
Espresso has a unique Navigator that's best compared to CSSEdit's styles list. It shows the hierarchical structure in your documents, no matter how complex. You can even drag around elements to reorganize your code!
Smart snippets
No editor is complete without a way to keep frequently used pieces of text. The sleek Snippets tool does that, and more. You can take advantage of selection placeholders, mirror transformations and tab triggers. Some languages even offer advanced contextual snippets, showing you just what you need.
Code folding — a hidden delight
There is more than meets the eye in the Espresso text editor. Move your mouse over the line number gutter, and a handy code folding ribbon fades in. Quickly collapse blocks of text for a more focused look at code. And the best thing? It works for any language that shows up in the Navigator.
CodeSense knows where you are
Espresso features an immensely powerful rule-based syntax engine, Core Syntax, that transforms your text documents into semantic structure. CodeSense leverages this power to suggest smart contextual completions in a language-independent manner. Any Sugar can easily offer amazing auto-completion support without writing a single line of code. And because completions are based on the advanced snippets, they are much more intelligent than simple text insertions.
Checks your speling, too
Of all the things you could write, messages to your users are probably the most influential. That's why Espresso checks spelling as you type in non-code contexts. Whether you're designing a site, coding a web app or writing an article, preventing a few typos is always welcome.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.1:
- Revamped Workspace
- Projects Organizer
- Image Preview
- Snippets
- Find in Project
- Publish To
- Open With
- And much more...
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.
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| Developer: | MacRabbit |
| Downloads: | 16,459 |
| - Version d/l: | 1,593 |
| Development: | HTML |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 14 Dec 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $89.00 |
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| Espresso User Reviews (34 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Dec 14 2009 |
MACLOVER1.1 Not the cheapest ever.. but it's the one I use all of the time now.. (I gave up SubEthaEdit) for my AS, PHP, HTML, XML... I'm not even sure why... it's the one I like best basically... it's sort of like cars I guess.. all cars pretty much take you where you wanna go.. yet you decide you like one more and you buy it ;-)
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| Dec 14 2009 |
EELCO DEULING Well, Espresso is finally on the front page of MacRabbit so I assume the developers are happy with it. And they have got enough reason for this: Espresso always was a nice and fast text editor (at least since version 1.0.5 which was the first version I have used) and it is one of the best looking apps I own. A lot of the bad comments on this app are based on the idea Espresso is the same type of application as Coda. But while Coda beats Espresso in workflow possibilities like uploads, working on local and remote servers, previews and such its text editor is counterproductive. Of course: Espresso has 'codefolding' (and Coda will have this in a future version since it is based on SubEthaEdit), it's autocompletion and codewrap is superior and just gets the daily code writing done faster. Other bad comments were made because people expected Espresso would have the same features as CSSEdit for it's CSS. But CSSEdit was nice when I started to explore css, but I hardly use it anymore since I know what to type. Now, with this new version, startup-windows and projects work like expected, there is finaly (a very basic) picture preview with a 'open with' commando and probably much more. Â…it still is note a very stable app: I had a very nasty crash when I tried to move some blocks of code within the code navigator: the feedback report was so large I could not reach the 'send' button to submit it to Macrabbit.
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 | Dec 14 2009 |
THOMAS WERNER With the first release folding in PHP files is always a mess. The navigator shows everything but not what i would expect. Nice try, but i will stay with TextMate. http://www.clubfeeling.de/media/espresso.png
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| Dec 14 2009 |
OSXFACTOR 1.1 is a welcome update, but come on - it still doesn't have a color picker? Are you serious? How am I supposed to pick my colors? Provide access to the standard Apple Color Picker, include the free and distributable Hex Color Picker, and you're done. Probably no more than 10 lines of code. I'd love to use this app more than I do, but having to tab over to another app just to get a hex color code is ridiculous when I have Coda and Textmate at the ready.
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 | Dec 14 2009 |
This little color picker is really the best one... just as if it was integrated.... http://mattpatenaude.com/ (it's not me :) )
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| Dec 14 2009 |
SHAAHIN In order to run Espresso under 10.5.7 or older Leopard versions, edit this file: "Espresso.app/Contents/Info.plist" to your system version, for example: This worked for me. Use at your own risk!
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| Dec 8 2009 |
MLBKXBX I've just tried espresso out. It's sad to see it's got so many negative reviews here. I will not rate it, because i haven't really done anything "heavy" with it. It looks *stunning* though! These guys know how to design a beautiful application... I love the "code explorer" pane, and also the document sensitive snippet collection. The toolbar have a limited, but useful collection of tools for quick access. It does tabbed editing just like one expects it to do (rare among mac editors). Now, people say it's buggy. If so, that's unfortunate. I hope they can sort that situation out. One thing i will say is that it's a little bit "thin" on features. It's rather bare bones. Some people find that attractive, so i'm not sure that's a bad thing really. Maybe these guys should drop the "web only" mode of this editor. I would love to find support for other language, such as bash, python and ruby. That would make the price more "worth it". I hate using different editors for every language i program in. I'm not prepared to pay 80 bucks for it though. Either pack some more punch, or drop the price down.
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| Sep 10 2009 |
OSXFACTOR Still no color picker. Bummer.
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| Sep 2 2009 |
SHMK I have already written a few comments but I now have to give it a low rating for the absolute lack of communication on the part of the developers. Also, as it turns out they are students and develop when they have the time. How can they justify the price tag when the initial release was beta quality at best and then go months and months without development and worse yet no communication about what was going on. Lame. I love CSSEdit but these guys really stuffed up on this one I went from MacRabbit lover to wanting to skin it and put it in a stew and I am a vegetarian!!
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| Aug 29 2009 |
ISCREEN Plz correct the d/l link then, delete this post (as usual): http://www.macupdate.com/download.php/30094/Espresso%201.0.5.dmg http://macrabbit.com/espresso/get/ | |
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| Aug 29 2009 |
MISHA Thanks, fixed.
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| Aug 27 2009 |
OSXFACTOR So, even at version 1.06, Espresso has no way to select a color. The color picker is no where to be found. If guess they want you to use CSSEdit. This app has a lot of promise, but stuff like the issue above, and the inability to setup an address for previewing of live server side files like PHP & RoR, make this app hard to live with for server side web development.
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