Brackets text editor

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Posted by jaslar
May 21, 2018 at 11:29 PM

I was fiddling around with another open source text editor: Brackets. See http://brackets.io/. So much faster than Atom, but it also had a markdown extension, and folding. It’s not quite outlining, but it IS a responsive environment for writing. Has anyone else tried it?

Posted by satis
May 22, 2018 at 01:30 AM

Never used it, was apparently waved off a couple of years back it by someone who described it as an oddball web design editor written in CSS and Javascript that does live preview in (and only in) Chrome.

After seeing this thread it might be worth a look, though. It seems pretty extensible, and you can install all sorts of goodies including color themes, implementing tabs (which the app doesn’t normally have) instead of having files in the file tree, adding icons to files in the file tree, snippets, adding a Markdown preview panel, filtering all To-Do notes in documents with their line numbers.

Folding appears to be an optional extension (or else someone made a 3rd-party option): https://github.com/thehogfather/brackets-code-folding

FYI Udemy has a free class on Brackets basics: https://www.udemy.com/brackets/

Posted by Larry Kollar
May 22, 2018 at 01:35 AM

I used Brackets extensively, until early this year. I moved to Atom for its tabbed files and wider variety of plug-ins. Brackets does have a better Markdown previewer, IMO.

Both work very well with a Jekyll-based website; if you want to use Brackets with Git, you’ll need to add a (very good) plugin (Atom’s is built-in).

Posted by Dellu
May 22, 2018 at 06:47 PM

I havn’t tried Brackets: but,I like Visual Studio Code better than Atom.

This one seems faster than Atom. It also has great plugins for Markdown and Latex.

Posted by jaslar
Jun 28, 2018 at 05:24 PM

CRIMPing away, I poked around some old downloads. I fired up the Atom editor, and it crashed on me. I don’t think I’ll be coming back, although I like its Taskpaper mode. I loaded the Brackets editor, saw that it had an update, so went ahead. Afterward, it loaded FAST. Installing plugs - markdown, markdown preview, markdown editing header, folding - is dead simple. It also allows for a headline navigation tool (although it doesn’t live update - you have to toggle it off and on). Spellcheck isn’t a live thing, either, but highlighting words is usually good enough.

It has a great command - move line - that I thought might work for outline-like restructuring of folded headings. But it didn’t work.

Now I’m fiddling with adding tabs. I suppose part of the appeal of this is that you start simple, then build up to what you want. I’m impressed!

Nonetheless, I could see writing in it. It has an extremely low learning curve, operates, the way you’d expect,

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