In the Terminal, type: ln -s ~/Dropbox/Snippets ~/Library/Application Support/Snippets. Step 2: Copy the entire folder to Dropbox.Step 1: Browse to ~/Library/Application Support/Snippets.If you want to sync your snippets across all your computers, via Dropbox, you can create a symlink. This way, your snippets aren't limited to a single editor.
While many editors offer an integrated snippets utility, I'd recommend embracing a third party tool instead. Luckily, though, a handful of them do support it at varying levels of flexibility (the king being Vim). Unfortunately, the ability to split windows is not widely available across code editors.
Watch My 4 Minute Screencast on Zen Codingįor many, a simple tab-based coding experience is more than adequate however, others prefer a more integrated approach. The core of this plugin is a powerful abbreviation engine which allows you to expand expressions-similar to CSS selectors-into HTML code." "Zen Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any other structured code format) coding and editing. In this last year, the Zen Coding project has gained considerable attention, and has been expanded to support a wide variety of code editors, including Espresso, Vim, Netbeans, TextMate, and Komodo Edit. Certainly, I wasn't the only one whose jaw dropped the first time he saw: div#container>div#contents>ul#nav>li*4 I'll show you eleven of my favorite tools in this article.Ĭombine the power and specificity of CSS selectors with HTML mark-up, and you get Zen Coding. Particularly during time-sensitive settings, even a savings of a few seconds per iteration can add up substantially over the course of the month. This tutorial was first published last September.ĭoesn't the title say it all? There are a wide variety of tools and techniques which can drastically improve the speed at which we code. Twice a month, we revisit or update some of our readers’ favorite posts and sessions from throughout the history of Nettuts+.
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