Hello,

I was wondering if a sugar existed for .LESS css files.

Thanks,
Lori

There are a couple false starts for LESS.sugars on GitHub, but I do not believe anyone has taken the time to do it right yet.  The most recent GitHub sugar is here if you want to try it:

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

Thanks a bunch, I will give this a shot

Are there any plans for an official sugar for Less or Sass in the future, Ian?

We will consider it for future updates. No specific plans we can share, though.

Mm ... I just updated Espresso. I was hoping you would be given importance to the RubyOnRails workflow with a LESS/SASS support.
At present there is no good LESS sugar and without a good LESS sugar Espresso is very uncomfortable

paplop - 06 October 2011 09:13 AM

Mm ... I just updated Espresso. I was hoping you would be given importance to the RubyOnRails workflow with a LESS/SASS support.
At present there is no good LESS sugar and without a good LESS sugar Espresso is very uncomfortable

Do you have a good Rails sugar? that works with Espresso 2?

I have no problem with Rails/Ruby because I’m a HTML/CSS specialist (no ROR dev, so I use the easy-side of the moon
For LESS I tried all the existing ones (I think) and there is not one that works fully. There are some plugin that can’t control nested classes. There are some plugin that can control nested classes but can’t control all Espresso functions/helpers (like autocompletion etc.).

Yep, cellfusion’s LESS.sugar is most correct.

Known LESS.sugar repos:

hawx’s LESS.sugar — not working
yoshokatana’s LESS.sugar — not working yet, hope it will work in future
elliottcable’s LESS.sugar — nothing created, dummy repo
cellfuision’s LESS.sugar — most correct
Grawl’s LESS.sugar — found in twitter and published to GitGub

Hi Grawl,

I tried cellfusion’s and whilst it installs I don’t get any SASS option in the languages - do you? I’m running 2.01…

Cheers - Ben

Do not confuse LESS and SASS, it’s different languages.

Yes, sorry, just have preprocessors on the brain! Meant to type LESS in the previous post!

Hmm… I use Espresso 2.0.1 and cellfuision’s LESS.sugar. And it works: http://cl.ly/BlMr

Mmm, not on mine. I’m also on 2.01. Are you seeing it in the languages drop down too? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24837581/less-no-worky.tiff

Yes, it’s here http://cl.ly/BlZs

In that case, I must be doing something stupid! Just to check: I download the LESS.sugar file. Double click it. Get a message it’s installed but espresso needs to relaunch. I do so but nothing happens. No option in languages and my LESS file doesn’t have syntax highlighting. Is that what your doing? Ive also tried saving the sugar on to the desktop and double clicking from there but the same thing happens…