I followed the guide for Dreamweaver CS4 in the wiki ( http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=tools:dreamweaver ) but even after closing Dreamweaver, it still will not treat *.ss files like html or anything.

Anyone got this to work ?

I haven't had a lot of luck with Dreamweaver, these days I use Aptana (http://aptana.com/) with the PHP plugin.

Works with SS files like a charm .

@dalesaurus : Plus one for NetBeans, I thought Aptana was a good IDE until I made the switch. I do miss the way that Aptana provides CSS previews though.

Have you found a way to make Netbeans manage highlighting and indentation for the template tags? Right now I have the program set to treat .ss files as html but find it annoying that the auto formatting doesn't indent the contents of <% control %> and <% if %> blocks.

@Ryoken : All I can offer are some basic trouble shooting questions.
- Have you double checked the files to make sure that the changes were made in the correct place and that they are still there?
- Do you have any Adobe processes running in the background? If so they might be causing the old setting to persist and you may need to do a full restart.

@JL, unfortunately not. I enabled the ss file ext as an HTML page which gets me by I hope to be insanely bored some day soon and write s set of SS specific templates. I don't know how hard writing a syntax highlighting package is but how hard can it be?

Fake Edit: http://wiki.netbeans.org/ParsingAPI Answer: ummm not trivial