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Looking at Mac text editors (moving on from Emacs)
- 26 November 2008
If this doesn’t qualify as “technical arcana”, what does?
The big thing that’s freed me up from using emacs is that I do all my development now on an Ubuntu VM running in VM Ware Fusion on my Mac Pro. I installed the netatalk Ubuntu package which provides AFP file sharing, and now I can use a native Mac app to edit files. So I want to see why people talk so much about TextMate. I’ve been using it for a day, and already am really enjoying it. It supports most emacs keystrokes, but it’s much easier to move around in a large project.
David, on the otherhand, tells me about Coda.
I’m doing a little looking around for comparisons — here are a couple recent on-point posts:
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It’s always good to explore.
I moved to Emacs from TextMate with a similar set-up. Once I got a taste for scripting and modifying the editor itself, TextMate left me wanting more.
I sometimes use TextMate to do things there’s a bundle for that has things that I’ve been too lazy to program into Emacs, (and I think I don’t do it to give myself an excuse to use TM every once and a while?), but Emacs is a better editor.
It’s easier to get started in TM, but much better to use Emacs in the long run.