I just bought it, but I'm still wishig for this:

1.) Faster and automatic refresh in the Preview window (already said)

2.) Remembering opened windows and their settings when you quit/reopen the app.

3.) Sported mouse-wheel support for rolling/editing values like in CSS Edit.

4.) Added the same Preview/Code Switch button in the lower left corner of the window, in the Edit window, as there is in Preview window.

5.) Speed!!! Try to achieve same speed as CSS Edit.

I use Coda every single day. It's a gorgeous app and it's made by an extremely responsive company. That said, it's just missing quite a lot of features for that $79 price tag.

1. No dedicated (live) preview window. Sure CSS Edit has spoiled me, but this is a great feature and I'd like to be able to see what I'm working on. Coda simply isn't built for dual monitors.

2. No site-wide find and replace. You can only search and replace items on your opened document.

3. The DOM inspector is pretty useless. Highlighting your code doesn't highlight the element in preview, nor does selecting in the DOM inspector highlight your code.

Coda is good but it could be much, much better.

Like others have said, Coda's a treat to use. As a professional web developer, I can say Coda is easily worth the money. The preview and CSS editors are throwaway features, but nice to have anyways.

For the developer on a budget, check out skEdit instead. Has a lot of the same features, but in a less pretty package.

I've never liked TextMate... I find it too generic for the type of work I do.

I guess your right there, the trial period is going out in a couple of days and I'm going to buy it as x-mas gift for myself

happy holidays everyone *<:)

I'm a pro web developer, who does all my sites by hand, and it is absolutely worth the price. A pleasure to work with. I was one of the people who use to use transmit + textmate, but this is a much better experience. A must buy for any pro.

I already use textmate but I find Coda seem pretty cool, should I buy it?

A well-designed piece of software that will certainly streamline your workflow. The text editor is not as feature-rich as textmate and the current editor is also a bit more buggy than I would have liked for a $79 purchase - occasionally my view turns into a bunch of garbage characters. But it's a harmless inconvenience and the occasional restart doesn't detract from my experience too much. 99% of the time it's saving me time and allowing me to focus on coding.

Version 2 will probably be wonderful, but currently Coda just lacks too many basic features to be a genuine replacement for TextMate. The interface is gorgeous, and its local/remote file management is a delight, but the lack of a proper site-wide find/replace kills it for me.

For now I'll carry on with TextMate and Transmit, but I'll look back in on Coda when the next major revision drops.

Coda is aimed at the Pro web development market, who is going to do all their code by hand. $79 is a bargain for all you get with Coda, and is quite reasonably priced for a tool of this caliber. I use it every day, and it makes building websites a much cleaner process.

Using Coda is an absolute treat.

Besides being very nice to look at, it has just the right amount of features to be incredibly useful without being bloated. I think the price is definitely worth it...but then I do use the program everyday.