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First time use, should have been mature - but full of bugs and lack of features

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Dreamweaver on MacOS 13.2.1, MacBook Pro 16" (2019, Intel, 32 GB RAM):
- switching language while in Dreamweaver makes it loos focus -- very annoying

- after a search in code, you are looking at it and click somewhere in the code pane - instead of at the clicked postion, you are taken somewhere else, way off the place where you were looking at

- lacks major productivity shortcut: "go to last edit"

- no Javascript function explorer - to quickly to particular function. Instead, one has to constantly search the code text to get to where they were just at the last edit

- no list of last searches - which is needed so often (and a standard feature of any other IDE)

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    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    March 18, 2023

    Which IDE have you been using?

     

    Technically, Dreamweaver is not an IDE.  It's merely a code editing and site management tool. For what it is, it's not bad but no doubt it could be better if Adobe had any interest in developing it which they don't.   Dreamweaver is minimally maintained now.

     

    • Code with Design view (Ctrl + Shift + F11) is faster for editing than Live.  Live view is better when working with Layouts. 
    • When I need to find something fast, I use Ctrl + Shift + F,  Hit Find All button.  Clicking on results in Results Panel takes me to the relevant file and code string.  It's very efficient.
    • View > Inspect is another useful tool.  Scroll over any Design element and the relevant code is highlighted in Code panel.
    • Once upon a time, Dreamweaver had a History Panel but no more.  That got thrown out when Command Macros were removed.

     

    I still use DW alongside other tools like FileZilla, VS Code and my browser's inspect features.  In my experience, no single tool does everything well.  So we leverage what we have in DW with features that other tools can do better.  In short, different tools for different tasks.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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      March 20, 2023

      Thanks for the vaulable reply, nancy!

      I tried to use DW only since my app was only HTML, CSS and JS. Nothing else - not even server needed , single page, working even locally and without internet.

      True, most of my work was JS code, not that much around the HTML.
      But when I searched I couldn't fidn a single working free WYCIWYG HTML editor for Mac - all crappy.
      So DW free trial was great opportunity - knowing the Adobe's professionalism.

      1) All the time I have been using exactly what you have pointed: View > Split: Code/Design totgether with View > View Mode: Design
      2) Of course I have been using Search -- but if you move along a long document, searching is way too inefficient when you need to get back to your last edit. My code is single file, 2500 lines (900 HTML + 1600 JS).
      3) In my original post, I described also a few clear bugs - I have experienced them many times, so no doubt they are bugs.
      So for the final few days I went back to Apache NetBeans 17 IDE + Dreamweaver as WYCIWYG HTML editor.

      On the plus side, DW has powerful autocomplete of variables and functions in JS.
      Even NetBeans - an IDE that has been around for 25 years (!!!) doesn't have that for JS (has it for Java, though).
      Reminiscing, last time I checked VS code it had a lot of cons, but not topic of tjhios discussion..



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