What is the best way to use LESS with Espresso 2?

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I recently started to use LESS for my CSS coding and also upgraded from CSSEdit to the recent Espresso 2 app. Is there a good LESS sugar out there for Espresso 2?

Im highly addicted to using the x-ray feature in Espresso and the inspector and I need my fix soon :)

I decided to not use any of the Espresso sugars that I've come across, simply because none of them automatically indent the code when nesting rules, a feature of LESS I use extensively. So I opted for merely adding 'less' to the list of css-compatible languages. Not bug free at all, but does the job. My write-up of how to do it here: http://deliciouslyweird.com/2013/04/getting-support-for-less-in-espresso/ — InanisAtheos, Apr 05 '13 at 12:40

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '12 at 15:28

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The most up to date one is here

https://github.com/mkoistinen/LESS.sugar

answered Jun 09 '12 at 15:28

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This is much less buggy than the version originally posted. – podperson Nov 13 '12 at 17:09
more buggy for me, lose the entire navigation bar much of the time – lemonginger Jan 30 '13 at 18:51
They're kind of both semi-useless. All you get is syntax coloring. What you really want is CSS-editor support (which probably requires Expresso's internals to change). – podperson Oct 23 '13 at 15:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '11 at 12:16

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https://github.com/cellfusion/LESS.sugar

looks like it will do the job.

answered Nov 17 '11 at 12:16

Rich Bradshaw

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Thanks, I was using some other Sugar I found that was not working well. This one looks like the best one to use. – Andri Nov 17 '11 at 15:17
syntax highlighting works well, navigation bar just shows folders however – lemonginger Jan 30 '13 at 18:51

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 26 '13 at 18:46

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This is the most recent version: https://github.com/alexanderweiss/LESS.sugar

Probably also most stable, but I used it much just yet.

answered Mar 26 '13 at 18:46

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What is the best way to use LESS with Espresso 2?

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