Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / August 2008

It is nice in many ways and well worth a look. However, it has some of
the limitations of SubEthaEdit (no surprise since it uses SubEthaEdit's
editing engine) including:
- grep is weird -- lots of undocumented options (at least not documented
by SubEthaEdit, maybe Coda has fixed this); I've never found a set of
options that actually works the way I expect it to based on other text
editors.
- No block selection (SubEthaEdit offers block editing and Coda
presumably does also, but I find it clumsier than block selection).

Also some of Coda's find options (such as "in selection" are deeply
buried and thus not easy to use. Apparently that's the price one pays
for making find a toolbar instead of a dialog box -- which is a nice
thing to do in many ways.

Note that BBEdit 9.0 also recently came out. It has an overhauled
find/replace dialog box that I feel is a huge improvement over the old
one. (Fans of the old one should look through the prefs; rumor has it
you can get the old one back). In fact I hated the old one so much that
I stopped using BBEdit years ago. I just switched back. I've never been
happier to pay an upgrade fee.

No relation to either company; just a happy customer of one of them.

-- Russell