TextMate


A great little (or not so little) text editor for Mac OS X

I'm an EMACS guy. I cut my teeth software-wise writing code on Unix in college, and Emacs has always been my editor of choice.

When doing Cocoa development, I do use Xcode quite a bit as well. Its Emacs bindings are pretty close, and its got lots of other great stuff too that makes it not so painful to leave the comfort of Emacs. (Apple, please, please, please add keyboard macros!)

Recently, however, I found a neat editor that is not trying to be an Emacs clone, but in a very "Apple-esque" way captures the power and extensibility of Emacs. That editor is TextMate from Macromates. I found it while watching a screencast tutorial on Ruby on Rails. I won't comment on Rails here (I'll save that for a later entry) but I found myself amazed ad that editor that he was using to pound out that code so quickly.

I'm still in the evaluation phase of TextMate. I've found that Emacs and Xcode have a lot of inertia with me, and switching editors is not a simple proposition. But this one has a shot...

Posted: Fri - August 4, 2006 at 12:12 AM          

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