Views Hints

Use Command 1-6 (⌘+1) to quickly switch between view modes. (⌘+2 and ⌘+3 to go between Edit and Preview are particularly useful.)

The Terminal is one of the neatest features of Coda, but not everyone sees it right away. A lot of designers cringe at the thought of it, but once you discover how powerful it is you’ll never stop using it. Here are some basic commands that you can use in the terminal:

cd go/to/this/folder - change directories
ls - list directory contents
grep keyword file - searches a file or folder for “keyword”

(This list is unfinished and will be updated soon.)

To instantly close an open tag in Coda, hold down option, command, and period (⌘ .), or use the menu option by going to Text → Close Tag.

If you’re programming in the Text Editor and you are having trouble with a CSS, HTML, JavaScript, or PHP reference, hold down command (⌘) and double click on a word. Coda will load related information about the word in a new tab.

When in the CSS Editor mode and the “Colors” panel is open, click the magnifying glass icon to select a new color based on any part of the screen. It’ll bring up a bigger magnifying glass that, upon mouse click, will load the selected color into the “Colors” swatch.

Most think that this icon should be a color picker (and I agree), but as Panic’s Cabel notes, “This is actually a feature of the system-wide color picker in Mac OS X! You’ll get the same feature if you open, say, the color picker in Text Edit or Mail.”