TextMate has single-handedly rendered TextEdit and Xcode obsolete, contained Subethaedit to strictly collaborative tasks, and stopped me from feeling sorry about not liking BBEdit.
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TextMate is the answer to all my editing prayers. But without project management, or other advanced editor features, it didn't even come close to meeting the needs I had and have as a Ruby programmer. With the appearance of Subethaedit, I found an absolutely fantastic application for talking shared notes, writing collaborative school papers, and doing the odd remote pair programming. Unless you're working in Objective-C or Java, Project Builder/Xcode is just TextEdit with mediocre syntax highlighting and project management, though. So Project Builder (now known as Xcode) turned out to be the solution. Working on a bunch of files using just the Finder and TextEdit gets old fast. It wasn't long before I absolutely needed some kind of project management support in TextEdit. But thankfully TextEdit is actually a somewhat decent, if very basic, editor (much unlike the atrocity that is Notepad).
#Textmate windows windows
For Windows users, it must sound horrible to use the built-in editor. So for quite some time my editor needs were fulfilled by TextEdit with the TextExtras extension. It felt so much out of place alongside my Cocoa applications that it along with its immensely bloated features list just left me cold. There's was a distinct feeling of "is that it?!". So I tried to see if I might too could come to love the editor.
#Textmate windows mac
The editor everyone was using in the good old days of the crashing Mac (or OS 9 as I'm also told it was called). Well, that's not entirely true of course.
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But on the Mac there was pretty much nothing of the kind. On Windows, I had been a big fan of UltraEdit and knew of TextPad a decent alternative. When I first arrived on the Mac with Jaguar two years ago, I was somewhat stumped by the lack of a decent editor. Definitely faster than switching to TM2, hitting ⌘N and then moving the window to correct space.August 06, 18:27 TextMate: The missing editor for OS X
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Hitting enter will fire this app and a sec later new TextMate window should be opened in current space. I have found that tmn is enough to trigger this application. Then push whatever shortcut you have for Spotlight (or Alfred, if you are like me) and enter few first chars. Place this script in your Applications folder and wait until Spotlight has indexed it. So opening new TM2 window in current space is a must.īut surely the developers are preoccupied with more important features and thus I decided to throw in my 2 cents and cobbled together an AppleScript that one can use to open new window in current space. I really miss this, because of my workflow – I use spaces to manage projects and programs I have open concurrently and I don’t want to mix the TextMate windows between spaces. With other programs (and TextMate 1 for that matter) this can be overcome by selecting “New file” or “New window” from dock menu.īut the problem is that TextMate 2 alpha currently does not have Switching to TextMate also switches spaces to my last TM session, which might not be my current space. Often I find myself in a situation where I need to quickly paste some text and edit it a bit.