Windows/OS X/Linux: Adobe just launched Brackets 1.0, a text editor for web developers. It’s free and has Inline Editing, Live Preview, and Preprocessor Support features, which all deliver unique conveniences.

We’ve covered plenty of awesome text editors, but Adobe’s Brackets has some pretty nifty features of its own. Using the Inline Editors feature, you can see two or more files side by side instead of flipping back and forth between tabs like most other text editors. Live Previews show you the changes you make, as you make them, in the browser. You don’t have to worry about periodically refreshing the page to check on your progress. Pre processor Support makes it easy to find, add, and edit class correlations between your HTML and CSS files: hover over a class in the index.html file and hit Command+E. Each CSS file the class is affected by will pop up, then proceed to open the file(s) you want in the inline editor to make changes.

Brackets supports HTML, CSS, LESS, and SASS markup languages. LESS and SASS have the same capabilities as CSS with Preprocessor Support, so don’t worry about missing out if you prefer one of those to CSS. It’s is free and open source. Furthermore, Brackets itself is written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, so the web developers that use it have the power to contribute to the program’s continued development.