In none of aaronbrethorst's examples were multiple terms put inside a single pair of { }. Now I can see the advantage, as (obviously) when writing CSS it is common to have a lot of repetition of the type this lets you reduce.
Now, I can see the purpose of LESS and SASS. Sometimes when explaining something to someone, the most useful feature can seem so obvious as to not need explaining.
If you use Firefox, I highly recommend ItsAllText. It lets me right click on a textarea and open the contents with my editor of choice. When I save the file, whatever I wrote is automatically copied back over to the textarea.
Bulk indentation is one of the main reasons I switch over to vim for editing web text.
In none of aaronbrethorst's examples were multiple terms put inside a single pair of { }. Now I can see the advantage, as (obviously) when writing CSS it is common to have a lot of repetition of the type this lets you reduce.
Now, I can see the purpose of LESS and SASS. Sometimes when explaining something to someone, the most useful feature can seem so obvious as to not need explaining.