MacRabbit. MacRabbit — 3rd Party Sugars for Espresso. TEA for Espresso | One Crayon. The Art of zen-coding: Bringing Snippets to a New Level. If I had to single out one thing that most significantly changed the way I write markup, code, and style, it would without a doubt be snippets. To get even more specific, it would be the snippet implementation of TextMate. When I first saw the feature at work via screencast, I was literally flabbergasted. I can’t explain how much it changed the way I thought about writing code, productivity, and overall quality of work. I was currently running Linux at the time, so I spent day and night trying to find replicate functionality in a native editor for myself.
This was before the days of the Gedit implementation of snippets so I did my best to replicate TextMate in SciTE. What’s great is that snippets seem to have hit the mainstream. The big deal about snippets The deciding factor for me is the ability to have multiple stops per snippet. I’m always on the hunt for a newer, better editor. Zen-coding takes snippets to a new level div#name.one.two Let’s get a bit more advanced, typing: p.one+p.two.