Comments on: Coda vs. TextMate vs. BBEdit

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:42:57 +0000

As a recent Mac user and web developer I quickly downloaded Coda and Textmate to see which I was more at home with and every quickly I bought Textmate.

I now have it running with a Git bundle for versioning and absolutely loving it. Haven’t gone into the land of FTP yet but I believe Cyberduck plays nice with Textmate, I code in notepad++ on PC and use themes ported from Textmate.

One of the deciding factors was the coding environment, Textmate is simply beautiful to work in, FTP doesn’t need built into my text editor so I am more than happy.

I am guessing later down the line, Coda will probably make its way into my tool kit though.

One thing to note, when muching about with theming in Coda I lost my Carat very quickly which is a big no no.

Anyway, just my tuppence.

P.S. Ignore the state of my current web site (if you bother to look), massively out of date but now being re-developed using Textmate and a sprinkling of CodeIgniter bundle. Much sexiness!

By: Robbie

Robbie — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:43:52 +0000

Even though coda has direct ftp access, you can edit right off the server with cyberduck using textmate. Command-K to start editing, and the server updates. And when you all done, you synchronize locally if you want a local backup of everything you did on the server.

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By: D Molanphy

D Molanphy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:30:36 +0000

I hear ya Mike. I still use TextMate for a lot of my smaller work. It’s the bigger projects where I think Coda really shines for me! (I really like the integrated FTP). And don’t forget, now there’s Espresso to add to the mix - though right off the bat, FAIL for not having Actionscript syntax highlighting.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:26:29 +0000

I really WANT to love Coda, but I’m sorry…the text editor is not up to par with TextMate. And isn’t the editor where it’s all at anyway? Sure, everything is in one window, but that does me no good if I cannot be as productive with the editor as I can in TextMate.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:10:42 +0000

I’m a text wrangler and cyberduck user but after watching a bunch of tutorials and watching guys fly with code snippets and easy ftp access, I’m convinced. I’m buying coda tonight. Nice article

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By: spence

spence — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:38:19 +0000

I have recently purchased Coda. I did try BBEdit didn’t like it. Textwrangler is sufficient for diffing. Textmate has been my editor of choice. Textmate is by far a better editor.

Now for Coda. I use subversion regularly. The svn support for Coda is loose at best. Had to make 3 or 4 checkouts just to get a stable working copy. Now the internal client is to old. I must say that if this is resolved soon Coda is an excellent platform.

By: 2ge

2ge — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:14:43 +0000

thanks for nice article, it really help me, I am new Mac user.

By: debbie T

debbie T — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:06:51 +0000

Thanks for your article. I was using skedit for years, but haven’t been happy w/ the latest updates, so I have been using Text Wrangler….I haven’t been coding much, but I would like to get back into it.

I tried Coda awhile ago, and will be giving it another shot.