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There’s a lot going on around the Brackets project, so I thought it would be useful to make a quick roundup (just 90 seconds) of the new and interesting. Here’s Brackets Weekly episode 1:

Brackets is out and we’ve packed this release with features that improve coder workflows. CSS Fuzzy Code Hints Brackets now lets you type in a few key characters for CSS to quickly narrow the list of available properties and values for auto-completion. Type in blc, for instance, and the auto-completion list will show border-left-color at […]

A new version of the Brackets Extension Registry now makes it easy to make a couple of commonly requested changes to your extensions. Once you’ve signed in with your GitHub ID, you’ll see something like this for the extensions you’ve uploaded to the registry: Change Owner Is someone else taking the extension over from you? […]

After some discussion, we’ve decided to join other projects in their plans to drop specific support for Windows XP. On April 8th, Microsoft officially is no longer rolling out updates to the platform. In order to focus on increasing quality to the other operating systems, this will help us spend that much more time on […]

The CSS Shapes Editor extension for Brackets allows you to edit CSS Shapes values in Live Preview mode. A visual editor is stacked on top of the focused element so you can drag points and handles to change the element’s shape. This makes it very easy to see the shape changes in context. The extension […]

The latest Brackets release now includes one of the most requested features: multiple cursor/selection support. Plus, as always, we’ve got a good collection of fixes and improvements throughout. Multiple Cursors Brackets now lets you create multiple ... [More] cursors and selections in order to make lots of similar edits at once. It’s useful for things like adding […] [Less]

It’s time, once again, for a new Brackets build. This release has a balance of new features, under-the-hood improvements, and some key bug fixes in recently-added features. Exclude Files and Folders from Searches “Find in Files” now has the ability to exclude files and folders from your search. This is very useful if you have […]

The Brackets community continues to grow and contribute in many different ways to Brackets’ success. We’ve got new extensions and pull requests arriving daily. To review pull requests, someone has to know Brackets well enough to know what the best practices are and how things are set up and show good judgment about what we […]

The New Year is here, and we’ve got a new Brackets build for you. OK, so we’re actually a few days past the Chinese New Year, but the new Brackets build is all the more awesome as a result. We’ve got two infrastructure improvements that will enhance your day-to-day use of Brackets and a variety […]

Right on time for the season, Brackets Sprint 35 build was released to brackets.io yesterday. This will give you something to play with, for the time between unwrapping presents and hanging out with family and friends. Find/Replace UI Cleanup ... [More] Streamlined, condensed Replace command with the same incremental search and highlighting previously available only for Find. [...] [Less]