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Posted by Alfons Pineda
Alfons Pineda
Courses Plus Student 1,287 Points

What's a really good text software I can use?

I would like one that automatically shows me how I'm changing my website on a separate window.

5 Answers

Greg Jones
Greg Jones
7,451 Points
Greg Jones
Greg Jones
7,451 Points

If you happen to use sublime text, it has a plugin called 'Browser Refresh'. It will refresh a browser from a keyboard shortcut of your choice.

Alfons Pineda
Alfons Pineda
Courses Plus Student 1,287 Points

Thanks for the information! I already use sublime, and I have made my mind up. I am going to stick with it.

Greg Jones
Greg Jones
7,451 Points
Greg Jones
Greg Jones
7,451 Points

I'd suggest looking into syncing your sublime text with dropbox/drive if you find yourself on more than one computer. I have a few computers around the house and it's great not needing to worry about where I am. I don't keep full projects in there, but there are some things I do where source control can be a bit of overkill. Like the treehouse ruby deep dive and code from following along in books.

For setting up ST2 on dropbox, I just followed the guide on misfoc.us

Mike Morales
Mike Morales
19,833 Points
Mike Morales
Mike Morales
19,833 Points

Alfons, Here are a couple of text editors you might be interested in: CodePen and jsFiddle

adrie silva
adrie silva
6,416 Points
adrie silva
adrie silva
6,416 Points

Hey! Notepad ++ works great! I started with regular Notepad that comes with Windows then Sublime Text, after finding out Sublime Text is a paid program I switched to Notepad ++.

It reminds me of Sublime a bit, in that you can change the look of the text editor in Preferences.

missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
37,033 Points
missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
37,033 Points

I like Coda2. It's a paid app on the mac and you can write your code and then preview it by clicking the preview link in the file progression up top. I also like how you can customize the look and feel and that you can add clips which is great if you ever need things like colors or something like that and don't want to constantly switch between windows.