When you build or debug a Brackets extension, the main editor window is your “application.” If your extension has a bug, a misrendered UI panel, or a JavaScript error, you cannot see it without opening DevTools.
You create an extension that adds a button to the sidebar. The button doesn’t appear. Without DevTools, you’re blind. With Ctrl+Shift+I , you can: ctrl+shift+i in brackets extensions
A few debugging helpers have tried to override Ctrl+Shift+I to open a project-specific inspector instead of the editor’s own DevTools. These are rare and often break, but the idea is: Ctrl+Shift+I → opens an iframe with the live preview’s DOM inspector, saving you from switching contexts. When you build or debug a Brackets extension,
Because Brackets allows extensions to register shortcuts and commands, some extensions remap or extend the behavior of Ctrl+Shift+I . Without DevTools, you’re blind
Brackets was deprecated in 2021 (officially moved to archived status). However, thousands of legacy projects and some design teams still use it because of its and inline editors (e.g., editing CSS rules directly from an HTML file). The extension ecosystem was once vibrant, with over 200 community extensions.