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Zen Coding

Posted by kdawson on from the change-your-life dept.

Download Squad has a quick review, with video, of Zen Coding (Google Code project page here), an extremely well-thought-out accelerator for anyone who codes HTML. Its syntax is CSS-like. Zen Coding has been around for a while — here's its author Sergey Chikuyonok's introduction in Smashing Magazine from last November — and it has now picked up support for more than a dozen editing environments, including Notepad++ and TextMate.

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  1. Re:Vim? by vroom · · Score: 5, Informative
    The official page doesn't mention vim support, but this script seems to match the functionality pretty closely http://mattn.github.com/zencoding-vim/

    Check the TUTORIAL file in the repo to either turn on by filetype or globally

  2. I nominate this for all-time... by bcrowell · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...crappiest article ever to get frontpaged on slashdot.

    It's a couple hundred words worth of "OMG!" with a code example.

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  3. Re:Zen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    Zen came to fruition the Tang Dynasty, at the height of development of Buddhism in China. It came as the highest practice, equivalent to Indian Prajnaparamita and Tibetan Dzogchen or Mahamudra traditions. The people who practiced it were those who already had great meditative ability and high capacity for understanding. Without a solid foundation, studying Zen (especially in the West) is simply nonsense. Without a background in the Buddhist sutras, you will likely just become confused or fool yourself into thinking it's just a mind game. From a real Zen master, Hsuan Hua:

    The stupid transmit to the stupid,
    One is teaching but neither has any idea.
    The teacher goes to hell.
    Where will the student end up?

  4. Re:Let's see... by hgavin · · Score: 3, Informative

    how do you use them without inline JS?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript