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ehc on July 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebPutty: CSS editing goes "boink"

Interesting, but I simply would never develop without a real editor. (Whatever a real editor is to you, it's not a text field on a web page.)

tghw on July 21, 2011 [–]

To be fair, nor is this. We use CodeMirror (http://codemirror.net), which at least gives you line numbers, syntax highlighting, braces matching, and (coming soon) autocomplete. Sure, it's no [vim|emacs|Visual Studio|Eclipse|nano], but it is better than just "a text field on a web page".

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