Editor for writing SASS/SCSS?

Question

I know there is an extensive list of working editors on the site itself, but I was wondering from you developers, what is the best tool for writing SASS, and more specifically and importantly, the new syntax (SCSS).

There are a few things I would like:

• Syntax highlighting
• Beautiful CSS outline, so it is easy to keep track of big files (usually comes up as a rightbar in IDEs where you can click to go to the specified selector
• Support the new SCSS syntax

I am currently using netbeans, but the current plugin is way from finished, does not support SCSS syntax, and the outline is absolutely counter-intuitive.

In the best of both worlds, I would like everything to work inside netbeans, but an external editor might suffice as long as it covers the features correctly.

Also, I tried Vim for syntax highlight, which is great, but is there a way to get the outline as well?

I am not developing using Ruby, I am developing using PHP, on Ubuntu linux.

Answer 1

The best I have seen is Kuroir's SCSS TextMate bundle.

TextMate is for Mac, and the compatible E Text Editor for Windows also works with this syntax definition. Unfortunately I'm not too sure about Linux editors that support tmbundle files but you might want to have a look at the new Redcar Editor, I think it's supposed to work with them.

Answer 2

If you check the E Text Editor blog there is some info about building on Linux. It's free (as in beer) on Linux. It needs some TLC by developers on Linux, though, as it's a bit buggy still. However, various folk are working on it: http://github.com/etexteditor/e.

Sublime looks like it is going to be supported on Linux soon, too (and OS X).

Both support Textmate themes, grammars and snippets (Sublime doesn't support TM commands, though).

I believe Aptana also supports Sass/SCSS, or is due to soon (the devs recently asked if they could use the Sass bundle in it).