Coda syntax highlighting for Silverstripe - syntax-highlighting

I've just moved onto a new machine. On my old work horse, I had Silverstripe template (.ss) files following HTML syntax highlighting in Coda. I can't for the life of me remember how I turned this on (I remember it was something I did myself though). Google has turned up no results.
Any suggestions?

UPDATE: The real way
In Coda, open Preferences, go to Editor, at the bottom, add a Custom Syntax Mode.
As per this guide:
Right click on Coda.app in /Applications and select Show Package Contents
Navigate to Contents/Resources/Modes/HTML.mode/Contents/Resources
Open ModeSettings.xml
Add <extension>ss</extension> to the list of extensions.
Or, make your mode (eg, SilverStripe.mode) and put it in ~/Library/Application Support/Coda/Modes
Or, copy HTML.mode to ~/Library/Application Support/Coda/Modes and then modify it, to preserve the original.
(For system-wide changes without modifying the application bundle, create the directory /Library/Application Support/Coda/Modes and put .mode directories there.)

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"hot_exit": true
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Is it possible to Drag & Drop, Move & Create a copy of files & folders from within Sublime Text?
I can rename, delete and have a plugin so that I can reveal in finder, but no other functionality from the project inspector sidebar.
Maybe it is me being really silly, but surely this should be one of the most obvious features?
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Can I use Xcode as a simple text editor?

Okay ... This may be a ridiculous question. (I'm still getting used to Mac.) I really like the auto fill-in-ahead predictive typing feature of Xcode.
Can I use it to simply edit files laying around different locations on my hard drive? I do not really want to create a project or anything (unless by PROJECT I mean simply loads several files, that are not related to each other, but that I may want to jump back and forth in editing them - I do not want to create a project from files that need to be compiled or anything).
If so, what's the best way to get started? When you open XCode, it asked a lot of wizard questions to get things set up. How would I simply get started to edit 5 or so files at a time ... where I might want to switch back and forth between them - and they are not in the same directory?
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Okay ... so I know this was a silly question - but Xcode is so intimidating for newbies. Sometimes, one needs a place to just get started and I haven't found that yet.
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open -a Xcode.app filename.txt
If you're going to use this a lot, you might consider making an alias in your ~/.bashrc.
alias xc="open -a Xcode.app"
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If you want to open a file in Xcode, you can also use xed.
As the man page says:
xed -- Xcode text editor invocation tool.
You can simply call xed [file] to launch Xcode editor.
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EDIT: Sorry, didn't know that there wasn't a Mac port for Notepad++. Use TextWrangler instead.

How do I control the "open quickly" search path in XCode3 (3.2.3)?

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I have something like this
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If I give it the full path to this file in the search window, then it finds it:
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/Users/andrew/myproject/xcp_dir/
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