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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[mattlazycat.livejournal.com]

I tried TextMate out for a while before realising I'd become used to SEE and find it annoying to have to learn another way of doing things, which is more a depressing reflection on me than on TM for sure. I do like having the file structure right there in a drawer; really really like. It's tough though! Textmate is really really in with the Web 2.0 crowd too, isn't it? I've not seen many screencasts that don't feature someone doing arcane magic with Textmate (how the hell does it complete whole tags with attributes when editing the Schema.xml in the symfony screencast, for example), which makes me want to spend more time with it. Thanks for the 'deleting prefs' trick - I think I need to evaluate it some more.

Meanwhile, I'm finding that 'vi' isn't as bad as all that, and does some really cute things, though I'll never move in with it. :)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Unless there's something about to burst into the world like Athena from Zeus' forehead, I think it's becoming pretty clear that TextMate : OSX :: BBEdit ; Mac Classic - it's becoming the editor that most Mac geeks use*. It's certainly the editor of choice for the Ruby On Gra.dien.ts crowd.

I never got deep into SEE, just using it for the live CSS preview. But I haven't had too many heavy-duty text editing things to do since OSX; I've mostly used TextEdit for little note files. TextMate made hacking my new gallery backend into shape a lot easier than it had any right to use, just with the file drawer alone.

* notwithstanding *nix geeks who got a Mac for its prettiness, and are still delighted to use Emacs/Vi/etc in a terminal.

[mattlazycat.livejournal.com]

Ruby On Gra.dien.ts
*snigger* That's brilliant :)

Because most of what I do is PHP coding, with very little contact with HTML/CSS (thank god, it drives me crazy these days), SEE is a nice simple fast-loading editor with the ability to jump to functions/methods quickly, do regular expression search/replace, and pretty highlighting. It'd be great if I fell into bed with TextMate and found yet more ways of making my life easier, but that's plenty to get by on, and TM has all that too, but in different places, so the differences distract me. That said, I did some digging after my last comment, and found the bundle repository, and it had Propel and Symfony bundles, so I guess I know how it did the crazy magic now. Might be worth a try - where symfony configuration is concerned, any shortcuts are good. :)