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EE2 Bundles

Not the license kind, the kind that make writing code easier in your favorite editor.

Today, Matt Weinberg released an EE2 bundle for Sublime Text 2, which was forked from an existing EE2 bundle for Textmate. Textmate is, of course, Mac only, but Sublime Text 2 is cross-platform. I haven’t tried it yet but it looks promising (I recently switched from Textmate after 6+ years back to BBEdit).

For those using Coda there are also Coda Clip for EE2 by Stefan Rechsteiner.

Posted on Sep 13, 2011 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: Development Tools

Nicolas Bottari — 00:06 on 09.14.2011

...and for those using Espresso, there’s the recently covered EE2 sugar smile

Brendon Carr — 00:37 on 09.14.2011

What was the reason to switch to BBEdit after six years with TextMate?

Chad Crowell — 01:09 on 09.14.2011

I have to say after just a couple of minutes checking out Sublime Text 2 I am seeing a lot to love as a long time Textmate user. Solarized theme built in as well - that’s a nice touch.

Ryan Irelan — 11:02 on 09.14.2011

Brendon, after the BBEdit 10 release, I decided to switch back to an app with a development plan (rather than the mysterious plans for Textmate 2).

It has taken me awhile to get used to it and I’m still not comfortable writing code in it like I was in Textmate. But changing tools and habits is good for the brain, so I’m keeping at it. smile

Ryan Irelan — 11:02 on 09.14.2011

Thanks for the Espresso Sugar link, Nicolas!

Sean — 11:31 on 09.14.2011

I’ve been using sublime text for a couple of weeks now and really like it - had managed to get the textmate bundle to work for ST but will now switch to the EE bundle made specifically for ST.

Andrea — 12:59 on 09.14.2011

Currently, I’m using BBEdit & Espresso 2.x as a CSSEdit replacement.

Ryan, have you set up any EE

Matt Weinberg — 13:19 on 09.14.2011

Thanks for the post, Ryan! It’s worth noting that the Sublime Text EE bundle specifically supports this jQuery Bundle:

https://github.com/mrmartineau/jQuery

If you have that bundle installed too, script tags in EE templates will get access to all the jQuery snippets/highlighting/etc…

Sean — 15:23 on 09.14.2011

On Windows 7 drop your Sublime Text EE Bundle in this folder (docs only show for macs)

C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages