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At university I used Coda, which was installed on their Macs. Now that I'm at home, I don't have Coda on my Mac and don't want to pirate it because it's harsh on indie developers.

What good alternatives are there to Coda?

I'm looking for simplicity, elegance and a code completion feature.

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So you don't need any of the integrated features like file transfers, a CSS editor, SSH or books? You should've phrased this question as software-rec for OS X text editors for web development or something. – Lauri Ranta Aug 9 '11 at 16:20

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Aptana Studio

Aptana is an IDE based on Eclipse and focused on web development. It is very feature-rich, including support for most web languages, integrated debuggers, Git integration and a built-in terminal. You should definitely try it.

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Unfortunately, I can't think of anything else that comes for free. Some paid alternatives include Espresso, TextMate and Smultron, yet those might also lack particular features you want. Maybe you can get a student license for Coda?

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Why don't you learn vim or emacs, so you directly learn something you can use all your life?

Vim and Emacs have a higher learning curve, but they provide all you ask for and a lot more, are free, and work for all languages you can think of. They're also available for all platforms.

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Now if only they had live updating CSS… – digitxp Aug 10 '11 at 18:14
@digitxp: what do you mean exactly? – Peltier Aug 10 '11 at 19:11
I'm pretty sure you can set up vim/emacs and your browser to produce the same thing :) – Peltier Aug 11 '11 at 6:44
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Check out Komodo by ActiveState.

Whether you develop for Windows, Mac or Linux - or all three - Komodo is a fast, full-featured IDE that you can rely on. Komodo IDE has a wealth of features to help you get your development work done faster, while staying out of your way so you can focus on your code.

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The only-editor is open source activestate.com/komodo-edit – Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado Aug 10 '11 at 16:24
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JetBrains IntellijIDEA Community Edition FREE is good option, at install time choose only components you need for web developing.

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Sublime Text 2 currently in beta stage and free for use, has unique UI

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