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Posted by andrewg
andrewg
7,157 Points

need help figuring out Brackets

I can't seem to delete the existing files in the file tree on Brackets. I would like to remove the "Getting Started" and subsequent files. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? Thank you so much in advance.

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2 Answers

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Hey Andrew, this might help you out.

Brackets Resources & Contenders

I'm personally leaning towards ST3 at the moment:

Lush Sleutsky
Lush Sleutsky
14,044 Points
Lush Sleutsky
Lush Sleutsky
14,044 Points

You cannot delete that. You can add another folder to the sidebar, and then the current folder will go away. Brackets needs to have a folder in the sidebar if you have the sidebar open. Just drag another project folder, and then you will see that folder, and what you have there will go away (that is there automatically when you install Brackets).

When you add a folder to the sidebar, you can click on the folder name, and you can switch between other recent folders that have been added to the sidebar (even the one that shows automatically when you first install Brackets).

Brackets is the best text editor out there right now, in my opinion

Steve Kinsey
Steve Kinsey
4,463 Points
Steve Kinsey
Steve Kinsey
4,463 Points

Yeah, I was having the same problem but as you commented opening a folder and adding it to the sidebar means Getting Started gets gone and QuickEdit works perfectly (prior to that I had been choosing to open individual files rather than their actual containing folder, which meant that the main.css file and everything from Getting Started was still there and was being displayed whenever I chose to QuickEdit my Treehouse .html file...which was starting to twist my melon a bit).

So cheers for the tip, and I'm very much in agreement that Brackets is the business...quality auto-complete to speed things up, lovin' Live Preview, QuickEdit is an absolutely fantastic tool, and the added cosmetic bonus of a mountain of really cool-looking Themes available via the Extension Manager too (after first install I spent hours in there searching through themes...when I should perhaps have been coding...ah well ;-)

Peace SK

(PS Did I really just type 'twist my melon' up there? Oh dear, too many Shaun Ryder lyrics at an early age me thinks ;-)