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Seeking recommendations for a Mac text editor. | by Phoon | 2007-03-04 03:29:19 |
| Macromates TextMate |
by jbrickley |
2007-03-04 05:59:23 |
Not free, but meets and exceeds every one of your requirements. You have to see it to believe it. There are videos on http://macromates.com/screencasts. Not only is it a 100% Mac Native but it's also extremely Unix friendly at the same time.
Most serious Mac OS X developers have already started using it extensively as it can work with Apple's XCode and makes for an excellent web development editor at the same time.
Truly native Cocoa Mac OS X application. PPC & Intel Universal binary.
Fully customizable via Bundles which contain macros, scripts, syntax rules, etc.
Can use any scripting language, Perl, Python, Ruby, BASH, etc.
Simultaneous multiple line editing.
Code Folding
Ability to Search and Replace in a Project
Auto-Indent for Common Actions Like Pasting Text
Auto-Pairing of Brackets and Other Characters
Clipboard History
Column Selections and Column Typing
Completion of Words from Current Document
CSS-like Selectors to Pinpoint the Scope of Actions and Settings
Declarative Language Grammars for Graceful Mixing and Hacking
Dynamic Outline for Working With Multiple Files
Expand Trigger Words to Code Blocks With Tab-able Placeholders
File Tabs when Working With Projects
Foldable Code Blocks
Function Pop-up for Quick Overview and Navigation
Plug-able Through Your Favorite Scripting Language
Recordable Macros With No Programming Required
Regular Expression Search and Replace (grep)
Run Shell Commands from Within a Document
Support for Darcs, Perforce, SVK, and Subversion
Support for More Than 50 Languages
Switch Between Files in Projects With a Minimum of Key Strokes
Themable Syntax Highlight Colors
Visual Bookmarks to Jump Between Places in a File
Works As External Editor for (s)ftp Programs
Works Together With Xcode and Can Build Xcode Projects
Act as an external editor for several FTP/SFTP.
The developer is considering going open source. No decision yet. However, he won't be charging for the 2.x version. The current version is 1.5.4. Version 2.0 will be Leopard only as it will contain many Leopard only features.
A 2007 Jolt Award Finalist - http://joltawards.com/2007/
There's even a new book - http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/textmate/
835 Blog posts about TextMate - http://technorati.com/posts/tag/TextMate
Classic Blog post from the creator of Ruby On Rails
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000270.html |
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