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A text editor is the programmer’s lathe, but unlike traditional engineering we can have limitless tools. The question is: how much time do you have to learn about them all?
I’ve used vim a lot over the years, mainly because I spent a long time using Linux and it was there so I used it. The choice was obvious: vim or vi were on almost every machine I had access to, and worked excellently both locally and remotely. Once I’d learnt the basics I was set, I knew enough to get my work done.
Then I found TextMate for Mac OS. The immediacy of TextMate made it easy to get started with, and i…
TextMate is one of the best text editors for Mac OS X. There’s a few features that you might have missed if you’re a new user, which I’ll briefly illustrate with screenshots.
mate .
In the Terminal, type ‘mate .’ to create a project out of the current directory. This is so handy and fast:
Screenshot
cmd-t
Press cmd-t to search through the files in the current project, select the file and press return to open it in a new tab.
ctrl-escape
Press ctrl-escape to call up the bundle menu. This basically lets you process text, you can do handy things like quickly insert language control…
