just saying

[egypturnash]

What the world needs right about now is a techno remix of Henry Mancini's Baby Elephant Walk. With acid phase-shifting on the baseline and everything.

Also I just registered Textmate (Mac text editor for programmerly things) and am finally reading the manual. I decided I should pay for it when I was thinking of tossing the prefs to reset the demo period for the third time. Just like in post-Firefox web browsing, I have no damn idea how I lived without tabs in my text editor before this. Yeah, I know, XCode is free, but it just feels gigantic and scary. TextMate feels light and approachable.

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[chipotle.livejournal.com]

I've been using TextMate for months and keep discovering odd things it can do, particularly from watching some of the "screencasts" available from the web site. For a program as young as it is, it's really full-featured. I've added a few oddities myself to it now -- MPI and MUF syntax highlighting, and a few other tweaks. Its Markdown support is also great, once gets into the weird habit of writing in Markdown. (It's what I do nearly all my LiveJournal posts in now.)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Mostly I still use TextEdit for word-processory stuff. I like having bold and italics there on screen for my little fragments and notes to myself.

But for things like loading up an entire directory structure of PHP, HTML, and various data files when I'm working on my website? Textmate, definitely. I used to use BBEdit back under OS9, but it just didn't make the transition to OSX very well. Textmate was initially super-ugly when I first encountered it (all text must be screaming pure RGB on black! just like {cryptic UNIX editor of choice}!) but it's gotten better.

Once I realized how much functionality was obscured away in automation->run command I started to like it more. And now that I've skimmed the manual I'm seeing it does a lot of handy stuff...

I do all my LJ posts in XJournal. It's worth it just for the fact that it keeps a local, searchable archive of them all...