Which CSS editor do you use on Linux and why?
I use plain ol' Vim, but +1 anyway. =]
strager
2008-12-20 21:10:21
I just clicked the question to answer the same.
stesch
2008-12-20 22:09:21
+3
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Emacs, via css-mode. It could be better, I suppose, but this gets the job done. Colourization, identation...one thing that is fairly helpful is that it recognizes which keywords are standard properites, so you can easilly tell if you've typoed for a selector or property. YMMV.
jamesnvc
2008-12-20 18:49:22
+2
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My editor for choice is Emacs. For CSS there's a "css-mode" package which does syntax color highlighting. Why Emacs for CSS? Because i can work with ruby, html, css and js code, and manage it with svn without leaving the editor.
I've even used Quanta for a long time. Good editor for html, css and js.
Anurag
2008-12-20 18:49:53
+1
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Firebug is great for this. I also use the EditCSS extension for Firefox. Of course, generally I use vim for editing. But css doesn't come naturally to me so I need the immediate visual feedback that Firebug and EditCSS gives me.
PEZ
2008-12-20 20:14:55
+4
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A combination of Firebug and gedit with the Snippets plugin.
I use gedit for CSS - and for every programming/text editing task on Linux - because it is a lightweight, yet a powerful editor for GNOME, my desktop environment of choice.
Yaser Sulaiman
2008-12-20 20:26:34
+1
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vim. I'm not sure why you'd need anything more complex for editing css files (or any other kind of files, really).
Ben
2008-12-20 20:49:35
hi ben. thanks for your answer. i guess i'm curious cuz there are some nice features like error checking, syntax completion, hex color popups, etc... there are some nice tools on mac, lookin for something nice on linux.
joshjdevl
2008-12-20 21:00:16
@joshjdevl, Vim supports syntax highlighting, indention, and other things. Many distributions provide them by default when installing Vim. You can probably install add-on scripts if you need extra functionality (or make some yourself =).
strager
2008-12-20 21:11:34
+1
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I use Aptana Studio on Linux for editing CSS, HTML and JavaScript, it has code completion for all three languages and error reporting. Its a very complete editor and you can also download plugins to give code completion and error reporting for lots of other languages.
Eef
2008-12-20 21:07:22
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jEdit is my favorite for almost everything. Not only does it handle all kinds of code well, but it is also cross-platform, so once I get it installed and set up with the pluggins I like, I can switch-hit with no change in what editor I use.
cdeszaq
2008-12-20 21:29:40
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gVim, because:
- Folding is one of the best things I ever learned to use.
- The CSS colour highlighting plugin.
Be warned though that the named colour support in that script causes extremely long startup times in console Vim, due to it doing about 150 RGB->xterm escape lookups every time you load a CSS file - just comment out those lines if you don't need them.
Ant P.
2008-12-20 21:38:43
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Hi, i like geany !!, it comes with a class editor, and syntax highlight.
DIlaang
2009-01-10 16:53:39