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Posted by James Walton
James Walton
1,567 Points

Text Editor with easy preview

Does anyone know of a text editor similar to Workspaces? In particular, I want something with the ease of previewing the website like Workspaces.

2 Answers

elk6
elk6
22,916 Points
elk6
elk6
22,916 Points

Try Sublime Text. It's easily one of the best.

In the package manager, you can find a couple of plugins that wil handle the preview for you.

http://www.sublimetext.com/

Prevu is one of the packages available for previewing:

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Prevu

James Walton
James Walton
1,567 Points

I have Sublime Text 2. Will that same plugin work?

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

I second this suggestion. Sublime Text is nothing but greatness. I use it at home and at work.

And yes, the plugin should work for you, James.

elk6
elk6
22,916 Points

Yes. Prevu was build for Sublime Text 2.

James Walton
James Walton
1,567 Points

Great. Thanks, everybody!

James Walton
James Walton
1,567 Points

Any way you could explain to me in Leyman's terms how to install this?

LaVaughn Haynes
LaVaughn Haynes
12,397 Points
LaVaughn Haynes
LaVaughn Haynes
12,397 Points

You can also try something like Prepros (Mac, Win) or CodeKit (Mac). They will let you preview your edits in a browser in real time. You can also preview your edits on mobile devices as well. They are both about $30. The down side is that it's $30. The up-side is that it's not tied to any one editor. So you could switch to Atom or Brackets or whatever and still those apps. Of course you can also live preview your files with Gulp for free but that's going to be a more advanced technique.

https://prepros.io and https://incident57.com/codekit/

James Walton
James Walton
1,567 Points

Ahh very cool. Thanks!