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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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