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TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac

by Scott McNulty Feb 28th 2007 at 4:30PM

Some people balk at the idea of paying for a text editor. 'Doesn't OS X ship with a pretty good text editor called TextEdit,' they say. That is very true, but if you make your living creating text documents (whether they be code, blog posts, or content of some other kind) TextEdit just won't cut it.

Enter TUAW favorite TextMate. This program is the swiss army knife of text processing. It includes a number of features that make coding and writing a breeze. It is a complex application, and as such the learning curve can be a little steep. The Pragmatic Programmers latest effort, 'TextMate Power Editing for the Mac,' hopes to turn you into a TextMate pro. Author James Edward Gray II shows the reader the ins and outs of TextMate, and teaches you how to get the most out of this great app.

'TextMate Power Editing for the Mac' is available now. The physical book costs $29.95, the PDF version costs $20, and you can grab both for $37.45.


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Shahryar

I just bought this book off of Half.com for $12.99 + $3.25 shipping. Now where can I find the software cheaper than the $53.xx it's costing me direct from the developer?

April 01 2007 at 3:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Vogt

Just learn VIM. It's everywhere, and I can't imagine being able to edit text more quickly using another program.

March 02 2007 at 3:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pixelslut

textmate is worth every penny. the book im not so sure about. but hwy some people like books some like manuals/help/forums, to each thier own.

March 01 2007 at 1:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeff

$50+ US. Woah. You're joking!

March 01 2007 at 11:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
FyreFiend

Err, Lets NOT get into...
I swear I proof-read before hitting okay

March 01 2007 at 1:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
FyreFiend

I used to be a vim only person but I bought TextMate last year. The price hurt but I love the expandability of this app. It only took me 8 months to stop littering everything I edited with :wq ;-).

(let's for get into The Holy War. Vi/Emacs/whatever, use what works for you.)

March 01 2007 at 1:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
FreelanderLR2

Physical book is less than $20 on Amazon...

February 28 2007 at 8:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mck

I'm a fan of TextMate for coding as well as writing, the number of built in snippets/bundles/etc. just makes life so much easier.

February 28 2007 at 8:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave Thomas

I used Emacs for over 20 years. I now use TextMate for 90% of my work. I use Emacs only for writing the books, because filladapt mode is unsurpassed.

But for everything else, I'm a TextMate convert. (The fact it has Emacs key bindings for the common stuff helps)

February 28 2007 at 5:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
André Michael Bonkowski

I would say it was a very expensive text editor, since TextMate was one of the main reasons I switched to Mac. (I now own a Mac Mini and a MacBook Pro) :-)

André

February 28 2007 at 5:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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