Friday November 05, 2004
It's taken me a long time to find a text editor that really does what I want on the Mac.
I've played with jEdit, gVim, Emacs, HyperEdit, BBEdit, and various others - all the usual culprits that UNIX people would fight a corner for - but none of them have quite managed to be just right. The traditional UNIX ones, like vi/vim/gvim and emacs, whilst being great editors, and being what I've been brought up on, just don't fit in in the Mac environment - they're just too un-Maccy! :-) (and yes, curiously, I'm agnostic in the vi/emacs sphere - I use them both)
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However, I recently got pointed at one called TextMate, which seems to have a great deal of the functionality that one gets from jEdit, whilst being native OS X. Highly recommended - the best feature is it's project sidebar, which is great for working on several files : where other project sidebars (like in jEdit) are able to list all files, I've not seen any that allow you to create pseudo-folders, so you can group all files relating to a particular part of the project together.
Get it from MacroMates.
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Posted by ajt [Mac] ( November 05, 2004 04:37 PM ) Permalink Comments [1]
I've played with jEdit, gVim, Emacs, HyperEdit, BBEdit, and various others - all the usual culprits that UNIX people would fight a corner for - but none of them have quite managed to be just right. The traditional UNIX ones, like vi/vim/gvim and emacs, whilst being great editors, and being what I've been brought up on, just don't fit in in the Mac environment - they're just too un-Maccy! :-) (and yes, curiously, I'm agnostic in the vi/emacs sphere - I use them both)
---Shameless Plug---
However, I recently got pointed at one called TextMate, which seems to have a great deal of the functionality that one gets from jEdit, whilst being native OS X. Highly recommended - the best feature is it's project sidebar, which is great for working on several files : where other project sidebars (like in jEdit) are able to list all files, I've not seen any that allow you to create pseudo-folders, so you can group all files relating to a particular part of the project together.
Get it from MacroMates.
---Shameless Plug---
Posted by ajt [Mac] ( November 05, 2004 04:37 PM ) Permalink Comments [1]
