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Coda - one window web development

Your Coda experience starts with “Sites”. Think of them as uber-favorites on cute little pieces of paper. When you’re ready to start work, just double click a site — Coda will instantly restore itself exactly as you left it, connecting to your server, restoring any splits and tabs, and allowing you to code, pronto.

Work on websites locally, then publish them remotely to your server? Coda’s sites will automatically track your local changes, and do it all for you. Just hit the big, shiny “Publish All” button. Ka-plam! Up they go.

Coda is the first application to use our new, next-generation Transmit Turbo engine. With monumentally improved speed, particularly when working with large numbers of files, your transfers will be done in the blink of an eye... well, unless you’re on a modem.

We’ve put together one of the most graceful and feature-packed text editors on the Mac, specifically for maximum hand-coding hotness. It’s got what you expect: syntax coloring, line numbering, auto completing, block editing, international support, etc. But the stuff we’ve built on top will really flip your editing lid.

Using a separate program to design your stylesheets? That’s crazy stuff! We’ve built a fully-featured CSS editor directly into Coda, giving you all the tools you need to create the world’s most beautiful layout. It’s like getting a second, full-featured application thrown in for free!

If you need to SSH into a server and run some MySQL queries, or restart Apache, or debug some PHP in real time, there’s only one way you’re gonna do it: terminal.
Coda’s got a terminal just a mouse-click away.

What's New:

General

* New! Tabs can now be reordered using drag and drop
* New! Includes ASP / VBScript syntax mode
* New! Includes Cold Fusion (CFML) syntax mode
* New! You can now drop a folder on the Dock icon to change the local file list to that folder
* When double-clicking multiple selected files in the file browser, all files are now opened in tabs
* The symbols/shared documents lists are no longer obscured when resizing the window smaller than the list is tall
* Keyboard shortcut for Make Text Larger now works as expected
* Fixed a problem that would prevent file narrowing from working properly if all the files aren't visible in the file list
* Choosing "Mark for Publishing" will no longer clear the publish flag if the item is already publishable
* Fixed an issue that would prevent Undo from enabling when working with multiple windows
* Can now cancel remote copy/move operations
* If saving a remote file fails, and the file has been closed, the file is re-opened allowing the user to save again
* Fixed a crash when copying remote folders
* Fixed a crash after using the contextual menu in the CSS editor
* Connecting to a WebDAV server could fail if remote files were left open in a site
* Fixed potential issues when connecting to a site with remote files left open
* Renaming a remote file with a leading dot character will now hide the file (if Coda is set to hide hidden files)
* Fixed inability to control-click files under the shadow cast by the Publish All header

Editor

* Extended the Close Tag command to partially support other syntax modes.
* Auto-complete will now suggest matches for more syntax modes.
* More refinements to the word & paragraph selection via keyboard
* When modifying selection via keyboard, now makes sure selection is visible when line wrapping is off
* Encode Entities now works on ampersands
* Improved file encoding detection
* When opening a new file in a split, now scrolls to the previous location (in the new split)
* <h1> to <h6> tags with additional attributes will now show in symbols pane
* Fixed various syntax coloring issues

Terminal

* When logging into localhost, now automatically switches to the site's local folder, if specified
* Now properly escapes ~ (tilde) when cd'ing to remote path

Web Preview

* Now restores the last selected browser in the external browser button
* Source view now updates immediately when changing syntax colors in the preferences
* When page source is visible, the "View Source" menu item no longer disables after switching to another mode and back

CSS

* Can now drop files onto image fields to insert relative path (hold option to drag files from Coda's side bar)
* CSS shorthand values are now properly broken out
* Dropping images into a CSS file, when in edit mode, will now insert a CSS style url instead of an image tag

Clips

* New! Dragging text onto clips window will now create new clip
* New! Can now re-order clips via drag and drop

Sites

* If a site contains music, it will no longer continue to comically play long after loading the paper preview
* Loading site previews will no longer resize the Coda window if the site resizes the browser window
* Site thumbnails can now be resized smaller