TextMate & Transmit Vs. Coda
Written By pezvendor on Feb. 6, 2008.
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I've been hearing very good things about Panic's Coda so I decided to see what all the uproar was about. I fired it up and I find some of it useful, but the CSS view and some other features are inane. What are some thoughts on the use of Transmit with the double click to edit in TextMate versus solely editing/FTPing in Coda.

Mike
Written Feb. 6, 2008 / Report /
I'm not a fan of Coda and I wrote a brief review here at 9rules back when it came out in May. And don't forget to include BBEdit in your group.... they've been the hardcore text editor for the Mac for many years.
subimage
Written Feb. 6, 2008 / Report /
Coda looks cool, but not cool enough to try. I'll stick with Textmate > Capistrano/SVN
oniTony
Written Feb. 6, 2008 / Report /
I'm pretty disappointed in Textmate's SVN integration. It works wonderfully for a single file, but it's a pain when multiple files are added/removed/changed in a large project. Maybe I'm just missing something...
subimage
Written Feb. 7, 2008 / Report /
oniTony - What do you find lacking in it's support? Textmate actually has some of the best SVN integration I've seen.
oniTony
Written Feb. 7, 2008 / Report /
In comparison, Eclipse has a "synchronize" feature where it would compare my working project against the SVN and visually show all the files that can update/commit, or are in conflict (and then also show a diff for each file). It also keeps track of local changes and lets me know what files I've updated.
With TextMate, I can't seem to figure out how to make SVN consider the entire project, not just the file currently in focus.
computerjoe
Written Feb. 7, 2008 / Report /
I love TextMate because it's so lightweight! Coda, surely, must use more resources etc.
subimage
Written Feb. 7, 2008 / Report /
@oniTony - easy, select the top folder in the project, then run the SVN bundle commands from there.
I always run 'mate folder_name' to open the project I'm working on. Works like a champ.
Mike
Written Feb. 7, 2008 / Report /
TextMate has always choked on its SVN for me, it can never find the svn application even though I've added it to all the path files and I can access it from the command line. Oh well.
oniTony
Written Feb. 7, 2008 / Report /
@subimage - it's all grayed out unless I have a particular file open and in focus.
subimage
Written Feb. 8, 2008 / Report /
@oniTony - yep forgot to mention that. You do need to have a file open, but if you then go into the project browser - select the top folder. Then you can run any SVN bundle command on the whole project...log, checkin, diff, etc.
@Mike - that sucks :/...not sure what the problem would be there.
oniTony
Written Feb. 8, 2008 / Report /
oh hey, you are right! Seems kind of non-obvious, but I'm gonna give TextMate another shot now. Thx.