I've been slowly weening myself off of Dreamweaver and using other editors like SublimeText and Espresso. But there are two features that are lacking in those editors that I still find the need to use Dreamweaver for:
1.) Find and Replace within entire current local site.
2.) Update links when a page is saved within another directory. For example, if you rename, or re-save a file that is open within another directory, Dreamweaver will ask you to update the links. This will then make sure that if the file is moved or saved to another directory it will update any links within the HTML for stylesheets, images, navigation, etc.
Does any know of any other apps or tools that might be able to accomplish those actions without having to crack open Dreamweaver?
Any input is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
The Sublime Text plugin 'Side Bar Enhancements' has Search/Replace entire project functionality. Doesn't handle update links across files (that i've found)
PHPStorm may handle the second question.
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Pretty sure this can be done with Search Everywhere using a rejex, I want to find all instances of a word, for example "productCode", but only in files beginning with "Market..."
This is important because "productCode" is a field that is found in many files, and I am looking for specific uses only.
Thanks!
I am using IntelliJ IDEA
You may use this option from the drop-down menu:
Edit -> Find in Path...
Then search as follows:
This will search for content \bproductCode\b appearing in any file starting with Market, anywhere in your project.
So I've began working with .cfm files recently at work, currently my assignment is to modify and update webpages to be more suited to mobile devices and tablets. Now, being relatively new to ColdFusion, I've been having a bit of trouble with how multiple .cfm files are used within a server to create a single webpage. Because of this, I've had issues with finding where specific sections of HTML are located, be it something as where a simple tag is, or where a call to another .cfm, javascript, or .css file may be. Is there anyway to find the origin of certain code without having to skim through hundreds of different files?
If you are working on your code on a local webserver on your computer (i.e. not a production site) then you can enable ColdFusion's debugging output.
Documentation for the ColdFusion Administrator debugging options are here: ColdFusion Administrator Debugging
You will want to enable Enable Request Debugging Output and turn on Report Execution Times. When you browse to the page, ColdFusion will give you a list of all files that ColdFusion used to render that page (with how long each file took) appended to the bottom of the page.
Otherwise, any good IDE/Editor (CFBuilder, SublimeText, NotePad++ etc) will be able to search across files.
I would suggest downloading the code from your server to a local drive. From there you can search using an IDE (ColdFusion Builder, Dreamweaver, etc) or a good text editor that can search multiple files at once. I personally use ColdFusion Builder 3 and Notepad++.
Multiple cfm files are put together into a single page usually by using the cfinclude tag, so that would be a good starting point for your search. There are other methods to include different pages into a single page but cfinclude is probably the most common one. BUT, if the programmer used cfscript instead of cfml, look for the include function instead.
Adobe documentation on the cfinclude tag can be found at https://wikidocs.adobe.com/wiki/display/coldfusionen/cfinclude.
I need to do a lot of search/replace across 50+ files, and am using Sublime Text 3.
Is there a way to step through and interactively confirm each change? I dont't want a blanket Replace All action that just performs all replacements.
I am thinking way back to vi/vim with its %s/old/new/gc functionality.
Both the Find/Replace and Find in Files/Replace commands don't natively support prompting you if the replacement should happen. Regular in-buffer find/replace just replaces directly and the only confirmation that you can get is when you do a Find in Files and Sublime prompts you to confirm the replacement after telling you how many replacements will be made.
As such, the only way to get something like this is to look to an external plugin/package that would do it's own find and replace option so that you could be asked to confirm the changes.
I'm not personally aware of any packages that would do this, but a search in Package Control turns up the RegReplace package, which lists among its features:
Create commands that highlight results and requiring confirmation before replacing.
That said I've never used the package myself, and from briefly looking at the documentation site it seems like it's only capable of searching in the current document and not across files.
A potential workaround would be to use the native Find in Files to find all files with matches, then manually open them and use RegReplace to perform the same operation again.
Is there anyone out there who has a dark color scheme for Dreamweaver (CS6) that includes coldFusion Code?
I was not able to find any and changing the colors by hand is really painful
Would be great if you could share one.
Tks
There are colour files for Dreamweaver, but I haven't found any that actually work with Coldfusiun. You can follow this guides process. It is a manual process, but it will tell you exactly what to change and as indicated by the latest update at the bottom it does work in CS6.
Copying from link in case link dies. Do note that you will have to go to the link to download the links.
Close Dreamweaver
Browse to: %APPDATA%\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration\CodeColoring
Rename the Colors.xml file to something different – say Colors2.xml (This will be the file you go back to if you don’t like the new colour scheme)
Download and extract the the zip at the end of this article to the location you opened at point 2.
Open Dreamweaver and go to Edit/Preferences/Code Colouring and change the default background colour to #003
As a side note. If you are only using Dreamweaver to write Coldfusion, maybe you should consider looking at CFEclipse. I've found it to be much better than Dreamweaver at writing Coldfusion. Also it's built on top of Eclipse. Which has a plugin to change the colouring. It's also easier to change it manually.
If I'm creating a simple static site with a handful of pages, how do I deal with keeping the basic skeleton of the site (e.g. navigation bar, header, footer, sidebar) consistent?
I love the dreamweaver template function in which you create a template file that contains all the elements of your site that are common among all of your pages and it automatically updates on all pages when you edit it. Apparently, there is nothing like this in Aptana which is the IDE I'm currently using.
Is there something like this in any other web development IDE?
The closest equivalent Aptana and Textmate have is "persistent includes" under the Commands > HTML > Includes menu. That allows you to reference another file using a special HTML comment, and then when you want to insert that referenced file's content, you'd run the Update Document command in that sub-menu, which would pull in the file contents and replace the special comment with it.
Obviously this isn't particularly dynamic, and you'd want to run Update document on all the files right before deploying the project. You could likely grab the command's source and turn it into a shell script that you run as part of your deployment.