IDE with syntax highlight support for LESS

Question

Is there any IDE with syntax highlight support for LESS?

Answer 1

Eclipse does not support .less fully (nested rules, single line comments, etc) but you can at least configure it so that it would open .less files and treat them as .css.

Preferences > General > Content Types: find "CSS" entry and add .less extension.

Then, Preferences > General > Editors > File Assoc: add .less extension and associate with CSS editor.

Better than nothing, especially if you're into Eclipse world ;)

Answer 2

JetBrains PHPStorm has built-in support for LESS :)

Answer 3

You could use Netbeans plugin for LESS.

In Netbeans 6.9: tools-> Available Plugins-> LessCSS Module

Version: 1.0.6 Source: Plugin Portal
Plugin Description This module is to allow for tighter integration of netbeans with LessCSS (using the LessPHP standard).

Answer 4

Sublime Text. It's good lightweight editor.

Answer 5

If you use Textmate there is a syntax highlighting bundle for LESS:

https://github.com/appden/less.tmbundle

Answer 6

Here is an Eclipse plugin for LESS : http://www.normalesup.org/~simonet/soft/ow/eclipse-less.fr.html

Answer 7

Syntax highlighting for LESS is included in the newest version of rails.vim.

Answer 8

You can use Komodo IDE or Edit for this purpose. It has an add-on named LESS

Answer 9

I just tried Crunch and I like it.
It has syntax highlighting (but no intellisense) and can save as .css.

It requires Adobe AIR.