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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, sleek projects, live preview (we make CSSEdit!), real publishing and extensive synchronization tools. All this, and an amazing extensible core? It's not too good to be true. It's now in public beta. 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 1.0.7:
- Fixed hangs when opening certain files
- Fixed errors that could occur when editing JavaScript and PHP files
- Fixed desaturation issues with dark themes
- Fixed problems with the Duplicate command
- Fixed the ordering of restored Workspace items
- Fixed runtime conflicts with ClickToFlash
- Improved selection behavior when editing file names
- Improved FTP file listing refreshing
- Improved FTP/SSL compatibility
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Developer: | MacRabbit |
| Downloads: | 14,443 |
| - Version d/l: | 2,441 |
| Development: | HTML |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 10 Sep 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $81.99 |
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| Espresso User Reviews (28 posts) | Write A Review |
 | 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!!
(Version 1.0.6) | |
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| Apr 5 2009 |
JOEYA Espresso has a ton of potential but it's not there just yet. Sure it's fast, lightweight and extensible but it's also unfinished. Marquee features such as Live Preview simply don't work as advertised. The MacRabbit website claims, "Espresso offers real-time styling of absolutely any web page. Even when your site or application is powered by a complex database..." However in practice Live Preview only works on static HMTL and Espresso doesn't support local servers at all. Add in things like the lack of visual CSS editing, the missing X-Ray functionality and little things like code snippets not wrapping around selections, the unusual tab workflow and windows not remembering their settings and the entire experience feels rough around the edges. Clearly 1.0 was rushed to market. The good news is virtually all of these issues can easily be resolved in time and for the most part you can work around them until a fix comes along. The bad news is no one knows when the fixes will come. Virtually all of these same exact problems existed during the betas and in many cases MacRabbit did nothing about it. In most cases they didn't even respond to feedback. Nevertheless, I'm hopeful. CSSEdit is fantastic so I'm confident these guys can put together a killer app. I just think they need a lot more time to do it.
(Version 1.0.1) | |
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 | Apr 23 2009 |
JDUB800 I am also a huge fan of CSSEdit, but am a little bewildered by Espresso's lack of integration with it. This should be the number one priority IMHO. It does have some nice features, but having use a separate CSS app, when the frameworks already exists by the same author, is a little strange... :/
(Version 1.0.3) | |
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| May 5 2009 |
JOEYA Having been part of the beta program since the beginning I can tell you that it was very unclear how many people in the beta actually used CSSEdit. I use it daily and love it, it's what got me interested in Espresso, but during the beta I was clearly in the minority when it came to requests for the integration of the two programs. Most people I spoke to had never even used CSSEdit. So I just think Espresso is aimed at a different audience. With the integration of CSSEdit and a proper working live preview it would be the best program on the market for front end developers like myself. However I truly don't believe that's the direction this application is going. Espresso seems to be aimed squarely at developers doing web based scripting more so than front end designers building with HTML and CSS.
(Version 1.0.5) | |
| Apr 7 2009 |
PEDRO FARDILHA Espresso is a decent IDE, but definitely needs to be further polished. As already mentioned here, it's as if MacRabbit (Espresso devs) are so worried not to clash with their other main app, CSSEdit, that they "forget" to add some usefull option on Espresso. Probably the major absence is a visual CSS editor, as so I can not call this "one focused app". I truly hope that they add some sort of CSS editor still on 1.x version otherwise my license will end up being a waste of money. (I barely started using it and already find myself constantly jumping to other apps to complement what I can't do here. If I keep doing this for to long I might as well go straight to those other apps)
(Version 1.0.1) | |
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| Aug 7 2009 |
VERYVITO Alpha quality at best. I used the promising beta and looked forward to this app. Unfortunately, between the beta and the time I forked out the money for the final (and indeed, even to this day), very little has changed: The "final" app works no better than the pre-release versions. Worse yet, the developers seem to be ignoring the diminishing cries of what could have been a loyal user base. A shame really, as MacRabbit had a loyal fan base left over from its CSSEdit work. In fact, if any other company had pulled this, I'm sure the uproar would have been huge. Instead, I feel most users tried to give the developers a break -- but for this price, such patience can only last so long. If the app were free, one might expect such abandonware, but for $80? I generally don't care about customer support when it comes to buying software (I use it and that's that), but when the software is sold as a relatively high-priced programmer's editor and turns out to be broken and pretty much unusable for anything beyond simple text editing, I think paying customers deserve an explanation.
(Version 1.0.5) | |
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| Aug 8 2009 |
QUANDREI I wouldn't hold my breath about support from Macrabbit. I sent them an email over 1 month ago about a few issues and questions, and have yet to receive a response. I, too, have a purchased license. Fortunately for me, I bought it with MacHeist, so I didn't have to pay the high sticker price like some other users. The more I use it, the more flaws I find with it, so I am glad I didn't fork out the 80$. It's not worth it, especially with the complete LACK of support. Originally, I thought because I purchased for less $$$ through MacHeist, that my business didn't mean as much to them as others who paid the full price, but I am beginning to see that they are dropping the ball with all their clientele. Too bad.
(Version 1.0.5) | |
| Aug 14 2009 |
JOEYA According to a new blog post on their site MacRabbit's two developers have been very busy with school and simply didn't have time to update the software, respond to feedback or provide support. So it would seem they essentially abandoned the project for several months while school got the best of them. The good news is that they're just about finished with school now so they expect to work full time on updating the software. I suppose it would have been nice to hear this several months ago but considering that most of us complaining here actually purchased Espresso, I guess it's better late than never.
(Version 1.0.5) | |
| Apr 15 2009 |
SHMK I want to love this app, I am a huge fan of CSSEdit but Espresso has left me wanting at the moment, feels incomplete and doesn't actually help my work flow. I have SKEdit as well and it seems to keep me working faster than Espresso. I got it with the latest MH bundle but I think I will be saving my money for Coda.
(Version 1.0.2) | |
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| Mar 1 2009 |
JOEYA I agree, it's far too early to review Espresso. Although a proper beta was supposed to be released in November of last year, development has been delayed repeatedly and the current beta probably isn't a good reflection of the final feature set. That said from what I have seen so far, Espresso seems to target the developer crowd more so than the designer crowd. Through the implementation of sugars, there's a broad upcoming support of languages while design-oriented features such as visual CSS editing (arguably what MacRabbit, the makers of CSSEdit, are best known for) is suspiciously absent. To be clear, Espresso seems to compliment CSSEdit instead of replacing it. Therefore, in my opinion it's more of a TextMate competitor than a Coda one -despite what MacRabbit's marketing indicates. As such, for those of us currently using (insert your editor here) plus CSSEdit, Espresso doesn't doesn't really offer any advantages - not just yet anyway.
(Version 1.0b3) | |
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| Mar 23 2009 |
THEODORE LEE I'm really surprised to see this out of beta. The app just feels unfinished to me. I had very high hopes for Espresso (still do, actually), but this 1.0 release feels more like a 0.90. MacRabbit gets some fundamentals right, like the Code Folding and the Intellisense auto-complete, which seem much better than Coda's. But the way the app handles "tabs", which aren't really tabs, but items in a list in the "workspace", and "previews" seems unfinished, UI wise. I'm hoping they work the kinks out quickly and provide some good competition in this space. But I'm afraid that the high rate of the Euro to the dollar means that I'll be sticking with Coda for a good long while.
(Version 1.0) | |
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| Mar 13 2009 |
SHANE C SMITH I would have thought cssedit would have been built into it and maybe discontinuing cssedit.
(Version 1.0b4) | |
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| Mar 23 2009 |
SHAWNDH I'm with you. I was stoked to download an early beta preview, but I'm floored at their decision to not build in the feature set from CSS Edit. Beyond that, this is a ridiculous price for what amounts to basically a text editor. Too bad. They've missed a huge opportunity.
(Version 1.0) | |
| Sep 10 2009 |
OSXFACTOR Still no color picker. Bummer.
(Version 1.0.7) | |
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