- On my Mac, I use TextWrangler for creating VBScripts. It doesn't support VBScript implicitly (highlighting of all keywords), but it has nice indenting, search replace etc. It doesn't support VBScript implicitly (highlighting of all keywords), but it has nice indenting, search replace etc.
- Editing an AppleScript using Script Editor. AppleScripts are written in Script Editor, an app which lives in your Mac's Utilities folder. There are two ways you can create scripts in AppleScript.
Does anybody know a good text editor for Mac that supports syntax highlighting in CoffeeScript? Is it possible to do this in TextWrangler or BBEdit?
Cheers :)
Script Editor can display the result of executing a script, as well as a log of events sent and received during execution. Note A result is a value generated when a script statement executes.
kolinkokolinko8 Answers
timbotimboOn http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ there is a list of what is available.
For Emacs there is CoffeeScript Major Mode (Emacs for mac: http://aquamacs.org/)
For Vim there is Vim CoffeeScript (Vim for mac: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/)
For Textmate there is CoffeeScript TextMate Bundle (how noted by Trevor, this is maintained by CoffeeScript creator Jeremy Ashkenas. And how noted by Chocohound, it works on Sublime Text 2 too)
For Gedit there is gedit-coffeescript
For IntelliJ IDEA and RubyMine there is coffeescript-idea
I can find nothing for TextWrangler or BBEdit.
Edit:
The list moved to the wiki and now there is an attempt to make a BBEdit plugin too ;)
As mb21 said, you can find TextWrangler instructions here.
To highlight coffeescript in Eclipse:
- Downloadhttp://www.gstaff.org/colorEditor/cbg.editor_1.2.6.jar
- Download https://raw.github.com/dhotson/coffeescript-jedit/master/coffeescript.xml
- Open cbg.editor_1.2.6.jar with a zip editor.
- Put coffeescript.xml into the cbg.editor_1.2.6.jarmodes directory
- Edit cbg.editor_1.2.6.jarmodescatalog (it's an XML file)
- Add a line for Coffeescript:
<MODE NAME='coffee' FILE='coffeescript.xml' FILE_NAME_GLOB='*.coffee' />
Save the .jar and put it into Eclipse's plugin directory. Restart Eclipse and .coffee files should now be highlighted.
WARNING: For some reason, this plugin's default colours are TERRIFYINGLY UNUSABLE. I recommend editing the colours to the attached first, before viewing any files. Honestly, just save yourself the heartache.
Jeremy WarneJeremy Warne
TextMate have good bundle:
RubyMine / IDEA have also good plugin (but this is IDE and is crossplatform):
Andrzej ŚliwaAndrzej ŚliwaAptana has it now in version 3.0.4, but due to a bug with control over tabs/spaces, you'll need to install the 3.0.5 beta.
This is the beta Eclipse update site: http://preview.appcelerator.com/aptana/studio3/plugin/update/beta/
I'm pretty happy with Aptana. In my opinion, the editors for css, scss, coffeescript, html, etc. are all better than the built-in eclipse editors for these languages.
Jon StevensJon StevensAdobe Brackets has native CoffeeScript support and the 'Interactive Linter' extension (downloadable from within the app) will even lint it to some extent, tell you that your lines are too long and so on.
However, there is no comment/uncomment keyboard shortcut, which gets old fast and there are other bugs, as you'd expect with software in such hard-development.
Worth checking out, none-the-less.
Dom VinyardDom VinyardFree Script Editor For Mac
ThariamaHere's a plist file for syntax highlighting, etc, for CoffeeScript in BBEdit: