Is anyone familiar with the web development software "Brackets" by Adobe Systems? I came across it doing search for development platforms and the description/capabilities really caught my interest. I'm hoping someone may have some experience with this software and can provide me an honest opinion. Thanks in advance!
I installed it and it is the default editor for some file types. It loads quickly and doesn't overload my PC which is good for quick edits. I'd use brackets before notepad+ or editpad. For proper coding work I prefer netbeans.
I am pleasantly surprised that Adobe is sponsoring an open source, free (MIT license) application; with Linux support, too. It does look interesting, if limited. Maybe that's just me. I've been using Emacs for 15 years and while I make excursions in other editors, they all seem limiting to me. I expect to be able to handle any and all editing related function from within my editor. On the whole, good for Adobe. cheers, gary
Alright, let's see how big a steaming pile of crap this is... Now I don't mean to assume that halfway through downloading, but for something that's supposed to be lightweight and simple, a 39 megabyte MSI isn't inspiring confidence... nor is the two and a half minute install on a i7. Let's see.. UI ignores the OS system metric, illegible colour contrasts in the UI, that stupid project management crap, bloated slow battery chewing scripttardery (hey, the whole thing is a HTML 5 crapplet!) no way to turn off that annoying illegible acid trip of colour syntax highlighting, no provision for having multiple windows open at the same time... Wow, this is a bigger pile of crap than Dreamweaver -- EXCELLENT example though of just how useless HTML 5 / JS crapplets pretending to be real applications actually are. Particularly loving how I can outrun how fast it can put text to the screen; I've not heard the keyboard buffer full beep in about two decades. Yeah, not impressed. Big shock, when it comes to products for web developers, the only thing about Adobe Software that can be considered professional grade tools are the people promoting it's use.
I've only spent hours using Brackets - because it's not my primary editor - and never noticed the lack of right click copy/paste. Why use a mouse when a ctrl+c will do? Learn to type, people!
Out of curiosity (my being a Linux, Emacs user) how do you select from the keyboard? E.g. select the next three words, or sentences or paragraphs? cheers, gary
I frequently use the mouse in my right hand to select while my left is on the keyboard poised to ctrl+c, ctrl+v - quicker than right clicking to copy and paste. However, to answer your question - and I do this just as much as use the mouse - shift + arrow to select lines (up/down) or characters (left/right). To select whole words shift + ctrl + left/right
I did not know that. I probably should have, though, since it does work in Linux It does seem you must use the mouse to set the mark, but that's better than trying to select with the mouse. Thanks. cheers, gary
You can't highlight text and move it with the mouse, there is not a very good way to split view 3-4 files at once(Like sublime), I found that it runs quite slowly, and there is just something weird about how it feels like its delayed or lagged but its really not. I wanted to like it, but after trying it... meeh, I'd rather use Notepad++ or Sublime Text.