Comments on: Review: Espresso 1.0

By: quicklycode

quicklycode — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:58:49 +0000

Espresso cheat sheet: http://www.quicklycode.com/cheatsheets/espresso-shortcuts-cheat-sheet

By: pedro

pedro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:47:57 +0000

Espresso looks very, very promising indeed!

I could be wrong(not a scientific test) but I feel Espresso's FTP editing is significantly more responsive than Coda's (which I own).

The interface seems to me more consistent design-wise than Coda's, even though Coda is pretty good.

Will keep my eye on it for sure.

(I'm a text editor collector/fetishist. I own BBEdit9, TextMate, SubEthaEdit, Coda and SKEdit)

By: Gerald Stangl

Gerald Stangl — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:18:18 +0000

I can’t wait to see the ERb sugar…

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:32:07 +0000

@elliottcable: Thanks for your comments. It's great to know that Espresso is so easily modded, though I personally am not one who looks under the hood of most things, so I probably couldn't write a sugar so quickly. :)

As for my critiques: I realize that Espresso is very young and I fully anticipate that many of my gripes will get addressed sooner or later, especially if MacRabbit's community continues to throw its support behind the product.

Espresso 1.0 is an excellent start and I'm very excited to see how it develops.

By: elliottcable

elliottcable — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:18:13 +0000

Just to get it out there first: I'm a Sugar developer for Espresso, not an employee. I'm currently writing the Ruby sugar, and I've got a few others in the works (Rails, possibly; git, Haml, SASS, a Sugar Manager, Regex, ERb, and RSpec).

Regarding some of the things you disliked: I'm working very, very hard on Jan (the primary MacRabbit employee with whom we have at least occasional contact) to get support for delimiter balancing (what you have in the CSS sugar, but not in the rest of the sugars) and column selection.

The CSSEdit grouping would be really, really easy to implement in a Sugar. It'd take about 15 minutes to Itemize (the technical term) the CSSEdit "grouping" comments, if you cared to sit down and write, I dunno a CSSEdit.sugar?