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I think that Coda should have code collapsing... i.e you could collapse a div in HTML, collapse and if statement in php, etc.

I love this feature since it allows me to keep track of my edits in large files BUT two things would make this feature much less frustrating:

1) Allow it to be sticky, like a check-box in the preferences, or at the very least add a keyboard shortcut for it.
2) Allow other colors to be used for the highlighting. The neon colors can really hurt one's eyes after working on things for a while. Allowing dull colors or opacity would be great to wash the colors out (like the "Highlight Current Line" color)

Thanks for making such an awesome product! This new version of Coda is a huge improvement and much more usable than the alternatives :)

It would be great to have the ability to groups sites in Coda.
It's pretty hard to have a good overlook when i have 50+ sites in Coda...

Ok, so I had one other hope for an addition to Coda.

I wish there was a more designer friendly Subversion client for the mac and seeing what Panic did in the realm of text editors with Coda, I think this would be a beautiful add-on for those intimidated by the Terminal.

I recently ran into a weird problem using Coda with VMWare Fusion 2.

I have a virtual Ubuntu server where my working copy lives, and I use Samba to mount a volume in OS X so I can edit in Coda. Using the built-in source control caused vm-ware, finder, and coda to barf every time I quit Coda after making some changes to the code.

I never heard back from Support :( but I did notice that the problem seemed to disappear after I installed the latest Samba updates in the Ubuntu repos (3.0.28a).

Hopefully this helps someone; I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses Coda for this!

The one killer feature Dreamweaver has that Coda lacks is its Dreamweaver templates and library files. Nobody other than Adobe supports both. Microsoft Expression Web gets close, with its "DWT" support (they call it "Dynamic Web Templates" instead of "DreamWeaver Templates") but Microsoft didn't implement the simpler, older, yet still prevalent DreamWeaver Library files. Templates and Library files are used to create and update static content that appears on many pages. Templates are more advanced, as where you add library files for navigation and such to parts of existing HTML pages, you can instead create new pages *from* templates, and edit only the parts that differ between pages.


(Image from designplace.org DWT tutorial)

Both are based on special comments that reference the file relative to the "site". Dreamweaver will look for templates in a root "templates" folder, and library files in a "library" folder. When it updates and applies templates and such, it is by default configured to rewrite the URLs so they are updated from "../index.htm" to "index.htm" - e.g. if you open a .dwt file in a templates folder in your browser, the links will work. When you save the .dwt and it prompts to update all other files that use it, during that process it knows to rewrite the URLs in the .dwt so they still work after being applied.

This is the one last feature stopping me from switching editors. Where I work, at York University, everyone has PCs and there's a huge amount of legacy content that uses Dreamweaver Templates and Library files. In part, we use Templates because we've been giving copies of Contribute to faculty to update their pages. (It also makes it MUCH easier to edit a multi-page static HTML webpage)

Outside of templates, I can't think of any reason to stick with DreamWeaver. I suspect there are quite a few web developers like me out there. I would have switched earlier to TextMate, except it doesn't support DWT either, iirc.

So what are the chances both might have basic integration?

Key for me are shortcuts/buttons/autocomplete (somehow) to add the comment tags for editableregions, and updating pages based on library or template files automatically. Finally I'd add support for creating pages from templates, but that's third on my list, as you can, if you wanted to, manually do so. Just find-and-replace the instances of "TemplateEditableRegion" etc. to "InstanceEditableRegion" and at the top of the file, tell the update code which template this file uses. I couldn't care less about repeated editable regions or anything fancy, as nobody takes the time to use them and the one time I tried to use them in Contribute, everyone was confused by the add/remove button placement at the bottom of the table.

By the way, this is an amazing support system. Everything is the way I've always wanted a discussion/community/chat thing to work. Wow. Talk about great use of AJAX. If only it was open source ...

Hi, Guys.

I, like many other people, have had enough of Adobe's Mac policy and general bloatednes and crappy performance. The Mac web development community needs you to do the same you did with Coda vs. Dreamweaver, but with Fireworks.

There truly is no real alternative to Fireworks' great mix of vector and bitmap tools. Photoshop not is only is bloated, but doesn't really do what web designers need.

We need you here, guys. There's nobody else we can trust for this work.

Coda's live preview mode seems to cache the pages I'm working on (as Safari/WebKit do normally), which ends up confusing the crap out of me. Since there's no easy way to clear the cache from inside Coda (that I know of), I have to open up Safari or WebKit to do it. It'd be really nice if Coda just didn't cache stuff (or had an option to disable caching).

One of the things that I would like to see in Coda is to have a search and replace within the selected text. As a developer, in can be helpful sometimes to have a method to only perform a search and replace within a block of code, rather than a whole file.

It'd be nice if when in search-and replace, had a keyboard shortcut to skip to the next found instance, or previous one, say, by hitting the left/right keys on your keyboard. I've been searching for a phrase multiple times and hate having to keep my hand on my mouse just to find the next instance. A keyboard shortcut would be much nicer and faster.

I've built up quite a nice little toolchain customized for me in TextMate, not to mention that I rely on many other people's bundles too. There is a barrier for me to move away from the awesomeness that is TextMate, and it would mean that Coda would have to be amazingly better to prompt a switch.

That barrier would be much lower if I could import my bundles into Coda. You should enable it.

I am really digging Coda - especially for a 1.0 app, but one oversight (IMO) is a site-wide find and replace. I have purchased Coda but I really wish I didn't have to switch to another tool to do this routine task.

The Code Completion in Coda works beautifully. However, when editing CSS within an HTML document (which happens sometimes) the CSS completion does not kick in (obviously because I am in an HTML doc). I understand - but it sure would be sweet if Coda could recognize the style block and offer completion for CSS within that block.