Textmate or Subethaedit — Help
July 3, 2008
So I am moving to Apple for much of my development and am wondering whether as a developer you prefer Textmate or Subethaedit and why…
An editor is a very personal thing so I’d love some input on the relative merits and also the downsides of your preferred tool, especially if you have used both.
Thanks, Christopher!
July 4, 2008 at 4:52 am
The only useful feature SubEthaedit has is collaboration. If you collaborate with your friends and colleagues a lot this might be useful to you but only if they also use SubEthaedit.
TextMate on the other hand is a universal editor which can be extended almost indefinitely. There are so many good bundles (”extensions”) out there and it’s easy to make them yourself.
I have some good TextMate tutorials and articles on my del.icio.us account which could help you in getting a better understanding what you can do with TextMate at http://del.icio.us/halbtuerke/textmate and there’s also a very good book about TextMate at http://www.pragprog.com/titles/textmate/textmate which I highly recommend.
You could also watch the screencasts on TextMates site at http://macromates.com/screencasts
Greetings
July 4, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Thanks for answering the help call Patrick!
Based on the above matched with my needs it sounds like I should go with TextMate.
Thanks Again,
Christopher
July 5, 2008 at 10:54 am
You’re welcome. I’m sure you won’t regret your decision.