Comments on: Review: TextMate http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/ Reviews and Discussion of (X)HTML Coding Tools Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tony http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-31096 Tony Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:09:15 +0000 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-31096 <p>I'm a new user of Textmate, and it works well for a lot of our maintenance tasks. What's especially useful for me is that you can call it from a terminal prompt: $ mate filename or $ mate dir (to create a project drawer)</p> <p>(Since at this job we do a lot of work directly from terminal.)</p> <p>However, I do lament the loss of a code hinter. Cycling through snippets is barely an improvement on not having them at all. The result is I don't think Textmate is a good solution for building new sites and pages.</p> <p>For that, I'm very partial to Coda by Panic. (For anyone who was a Homesite fan on the PC, and who wants the same functionality on a Mac, Coda's your solution.) It's less cheap, at ~US$100 per, but that's still not a whole lot o money.</p> I’m a new user of Textmate, and it works well for a lot of our maintenance tasks. What’s especially useful for me is that you can call it from a terminal prompt: $ mate filename or $ mate dir (to create a project drawer)

(Since at this job we do a lot of work directly from terminal.)

However, I do lament the loss of a code hinter. Cycling through snippets is barely an improvement on not having them at all. The result is I don’t think Textmate is a good solution for building new sites and pages.

For that, I’m very partial to Coda by Panic. (For anyone who was a Homesite fan on the PC, and who wants the same functionality on a Mac, Coda’s your solution.) It’s less cheap, at ~US$100 per, but that’s still not a whole lot o money.

]]> By: Craig Anderson http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-31095 Craig Anderson Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:37:09 +0000 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-31095 <p>You can work on a project of unrelated files by creating a .tmproj file — go to File > New Project, then start dragging your files into the project drawer.</p> You can work on a project of unrelated files by creating a .tmproj file — go to File > New Project, then start dragging your files into the project drawer.

]]> By: Son Nguyen http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-30255 Son Nguyen Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:25:53 +0000 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-30255 <p>I'm also a new user of TextMate and getting to know it. I use EditPlus on PC. The search in project of TextMate can be improved though</p> I’m also a new user of TextMate and getting to know it. I use EditPlus on PC. The search in project of TextMate can be improved though

]]> By: HTML Editor Reviews » Review: HateML Pro 1.1 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-327 HTML Editor Reviews » Review: HateML Pro 1.1 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:59:01 +0000 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-327 <p>[...] at least grab some of the best features from other editors, as e has done, giving Windows users TextMate snippets and bundles. Don’t get me wrong: HateML isn’t a bad editor; it just [...]</p> [...] at least grab some of the best features from other editors, as e has done, giving Windows users TextMate snippets and bundles. Don’t get me wrong: HateML isn’t a bad editor; it just [...]

]]> By: Eric http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-12 Eric Fri, 26 May 2006 15:23:52 +0000 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/05/24/review-textmate/#comment-12 <p>Thanks for the suggestion, J.D. SubEthaEdit is now on the list.</p> Thanks for the suggestion, J.D. SubEthaEdit is now on the list.

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