CSS Plugin for Eclipse?
Posted on August 12, 2008 at 6:44 PM in General
I hate Aptana. The damn thing just takes over your Eclipse install and does everything that you tell it not to do. The only thing I ever used it for was CSS code coloring and insight, but today I had enough and uninstalled it. As a result, I am now looking for a CSS plugin again. Any recommendations?
Yes, I am aware of CSS Editor on SourceForge, but it has had no activity in over four (4) years, so it doesn't really seem like a good choice. Any and all recommendations would be greatly appreciated. :-)
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On 8/12/08 at 7:23 PM, todd sharp said:
On 8/12/08 at 7:32 PM, Matt Quackenbush said:
1) Ignores the setting of whether or not to search for updates. I set it to false, it does it anyways.
2) Ignores the setting of whether or not to notify me of updates and/or news. Same as above.
3) Eats up resources. I only use it for CSS and JS editing, and every time I open one of those two file types, it's about a 30% chance that it'll crash Eclipse.
I don't recall what it was, but there was some setting that I had set in Eclipse that Aptana overruled and ignored. I eventually found it in Aptana and got around it, which is why I don't remember what it was, but it was annoying nonetheless.
As for the AIR integration, I'm sure that would be cool if I were doing anything in AIR, but I'm not, so it's kinda meaningless for me personally. Like anything else, if Aptana works for you, then keep on plugging away with it. I just finally got tired enough of all the crashes and popups, etc. to uninstall.
On 8/12/08 at 7:41 PM, Nathan Strutz said:
To a degree, I share your annoyances in Aptana's taking over your IDE experience. That sucks. It just does. Personally, I've learned to live with it, disabling some things and ignoring others (like "Try Pro").
For an alternate CSS editor, have you tried Eclipse's WST CSS Editor? If you download the "Eclipse for Java EE Developers", or install WST separately, "CSS Editor" will be listed as an option when you right-click on a .css file and select "Open With..."
If you haven't upgraded to Eclipse 3.4, this might be your chance, since Aptana is only barely supported on E3.4. Again, get the EE version.
hope that helps.
On 8/12/08 at 9:52 PM, Don Bellamy said:
Here is a nice alternative:
CSSEditor
http://csseditor.sourceforge.net/
On 8/12/08 at 10:03 PM, Mike Rankin said:
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