
For a long time I thought "Wouldn't it be nice to just be able to write "normally" and it gets displayed on the internet just like you wrote it?" Like many I believed that the future is wysiwyg and that people still wrestling with html would sadly not survive evolution. I must confess, I used to keep an eye on them and regularly tried a new one or a new version. And mainly superfluous code, adding unneeded complexity and fragility. What You See Is What You Get editors used to produce horrible html code.
#BRACKET EMMET SHORT MENU FULL#
The preview pane will close, so you'll have the full screen available, both for the editor and for the preview -after clicking its tab ) And wysiwyg? If your screen is small (most laptops) and does not really allow 2 panes, just drag the preview tab to the left -editor- side. Furthermore, I added the "Autosave" package, making life even easier.Īnd the right side pane with the live preview: What a blessing, after years of jumping back and forth between editor and (refreshing the) browser. I was surprised by its nice and calm working environment and after adding the Atom-html-preview, the right side pane is showing a live preview that updates changes in real time. Beautiful, made by Microsoft.hmm, no thanks, Featherweb only accepts solutions from ethical projects.
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#BRACKET EMMET SHORT MENU CODE#
Before you think "how nice of them", this cheat sheet is no less than 24 pages long! Who is cheating who here ) But please don't panic like I did originally, when trying to visualize learning 24 pages of code by heart.There is absolutely no need to do so, as Coder Coder elegantly shows in the youtube on top of this page. To get up to speed with Emmet, its creators made a cheat sheet. Despite the occasional frustrations, I could feel the immense joy, power and liberation Emmet (then Zen Coding) promised.

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and I was hooked! Even though at the time of my Zen Coding testing, Bluefish was not always reliable or stable as far as Zen Coding goes. I started experimenting with some easy Zen Coding abbreviations in Bluefish. Did some quick research and learned "Emmet" is the new name for "Zen Coding". A simple html shorthand system would do!įor years I had been hand coding html in Geany and Bluefish, both fast and friendly open source editors, before I decided to check out what that "Zen Coding" menu item in Bluefish was all about. It just serves what it is fed, html, css and perhaps some javascript, without having to translate or otherwise process anything.( I do hope some guru is reading this and, if needed, is willing to correct my thinking!) We want something else. OR, find a server that can do the md-parsing "effortlessly", without slowing the rendering down and thus eating Watts unnecessarily.In my opinion a static website can only be run from a totally static server and that humble server has no ability to "dynamically" do stuff like parsing. For me the biggest stumbling blocks is that you have to find an easy workflow to get your markdown files parsed into html, before uploading them to a server, and having to keep duplicate sources, the markdown for editing and the newly derived html to push to the server. I even wrote a short howto for StackEdit, one of the best markdown online/offline editors. Believe me, I gave Markdown a serious try. there are dozens of Markdown approaches, each with their own pros and cons. There are some really lovely solutions to be found in Markdown land, but do not look for consistency. I cannot accept a system limiting my freedom and creativity. They also tended to think and act on my behalf. Some I liked initially, but I always ended the relation as soon as I saw those systems, however nicely designed, added a lot of bloat and thus weight and vulnerability. And it is simply boring! Counting stars is easily more exciting. They take away your attention just when you need it most as a writer. Those tags with their opening and closing angle brackets started to drive me crazy.

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This will be the very first paragraph of this site.written in Emmet )īut why Emmet ? Well, I tried just about anything else: I have been hand-coding html for years and it easily deserves the price for the most boring, endlessly repetitive brain activity on earth. Menu Testing Emmet Nice youtube emmet introduction (by Coder Coder)
