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Welcome! If you want to develop custom Sugars or themes for Espresso, you are in the right place!

If you are using the program and need help, please choose Help→Send Feedback… in the app and ask us your questions directly.

If you want to download custom Sugars or themes, please choose Help→Get Sugar Plug-Ins… in the app, or search GitHub (vast majority of Sugars and themes end up on GitHub).

Getting started

If you are new to Sugar development, here are some good starting points:

• Introduce yourself to the SugarBasics and SugarStructure
• Create custom SyntaxThemes to change the colors of your code
• Learn LanguageSugars so you can add support for a new language, or improve an existing one
• Craft new CodeSense to add auto-completion to new or existing languages
• Dive into JavaScriptActions and supercharge your code editing

Reference

If you are already comfortable with Espresso Sugars and themes, here are some links to jump quickly to various info:

• SugarBasics and SugarStructure

• Selectors
• SyntaxThemes
• Snippets and SnippetSyntax

• LanguageSugars
• CodeSense
• Syntaxes and LanguagesXML
• Itemizers
• ContextualSettings

• JavaScriptActions
• ActionXML
• Localizable.strings
• JavaScriptAPI
• CocoaAPI

If you’re an old hand with Espresso Sugars, you may be interested in the RecentChanges.