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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. Zen by mindbrane · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is there a better commentary on the west's general inability to grok zen than our endless bastardization of the word, zen?

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    ideopath @ play
    1. Re:Zen by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is there a better commentary on the west's general inability to grok zen than our endless bastardization of the word, zen?

      ZEN is not a ticker symbol on the NYSE yet, so I guess not.

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      For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
  2. 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

  3. Re:Let's see... by pavera · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please keep your SQL and HTML separate. Don't punish those who will come after you.

  4. Re:I nominate this for all-time... by greg1104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You should save your vote for when its dupe shows up in a couple of days.

  5. Re:Let's see... by eelke_klein · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe you should make that, please keep your SQL, PHP, JavaScript, CSS and HTML seperate.