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Re: E: textmate for windows

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Post by mattculbreth »

amichail wrote: post #10
mattculbreth wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly tough to answer this. It's one of those things where you just have to use it for a while to realize how supportive it is of programming. All of the bundles (mostly developed by third parties) certainly helps. You can basically automate/script the application any way you like. There are bundles for different frameworks/libraries that can speed up common development tasks.

But is it better than Eclipse in terms of sophisticated language support? For a dynamic language, maybe that's not so important. But for a verbose statically typed language such as Java, it's critical. BTW, if you have not checked out Eclipse lately, see: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.2-200606291905/new_noteworthy/eclipse-news-all.html

I don't see it as a tool which can be compared easily. Eclipse (in my view) is more of a complete IDE. Same with Visual Studio (also superb).

Textmate is a seemingly minimalist programmer's editor. When you get into it and start hacking you start to see how much is really there. Definitely not an IDE though.

Re: E: textmate for windows

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Post by run4yourlives »

amichail wrote: post #6
semigeek wrote: post #5

I've been contemplating a mac laptop for a while - textmate was almost what put me over the edge on my decision. Guess I can stick to Windows for a bit longer now :)

Why is textmate interesting? I've been using Eclipse for java development and have been very happy with it.

Compared to eclipse: Bloat.

Re: E: textmate for windows

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Post by amichail »

run4yourlives wrote: post #12
amichail wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is textmate interesting? I've been using Eclipse for java development and have been very happy with it.

Compared to eclipse: Bloat.

Why does it matter if eclipse is huge? Your productivity is what's important. And for Java, eclipse results in a dramatic improvement in productivity.

Re: E: textmate for windows

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Post by eli »

I think the more interesting issue is that they're charging money for beta software.

(Of course, most things are more interesting than a Vi/Emacs/whatever holy war)

Re: E: textmate for windows

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Post by Readmore »

semigeek wrote: post #5

I've been contemplating a mac laptop for a while - textmate was almost what put me over the edge on my decision. Guess I can stick to Windows for a bit longer now :)

Oh no. Don't let this be what keeps you in Windows land. Switch to Mac just because it's better in every way, you won't regret it.

Re: E: textmate for windows

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Post by jasonyan »

I had been using Komodo for the last few months which is a nice IDE, but this looks promising.

I've tarballed the latest bundles from their repository and renamed all ":?*\\|" characters to DOS friendly characters, if you want to try out a bundle that isn't included with E. You can grab it from: http://www.bigheadlabs.com/~jason/Bundles.tar.gz

Re: E: textmate for windows

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Post by nickb »

On the surface it might look like TextMate but after trying to use it for about 10 min, it fails to live up to this moniker. It doesn't do 20% of what TM does.

Note: I use TM to edit the RoR files.

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