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I know some Mac users who've said they would switch to Linux if there were a TextMate-like editor available. This could be it.
I'd recommend jEdit. It's my editing weapon of choice for OSX, Linux and Windows. By default it's a bit plain, but the plugins available are fantastic: http://taat.pl/en/jedit/ Download it here: http://www.jedit.org/
I know some Mac users who've said they would switch to Linux if there were a TextMate-like editor available. This could be it.
I'd recommend jEdit. It's my editing weapon of choice for OSX, Linux and Windows. By default it's a bit plain, but the plugins available are fantastic: http://taat.pl/en/jedit/ Download it here: http://www.jedit.org/
I'm a big fan of textmate, probably my favorite utility on the mac. While things like this and e editor(windows) help, there is still a ton of nice apps only on the mac. As for the Vi and Emacs people, I rather not spend weeks customizing my text editor, I just want something that can color code out of the box and I can get work done.
And about ten thousand other editors that use the standard keybindings. The bundle compatibility seems much more interesting as a feature.
I know some Mac users who've said they would switch to Linux if there were a TextMate-like editor available. This could be it.
It has been around for a while, and I think is the closest thing to TextMate under the Gnome environment.
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I don't get why people are building these fancy new editors - You can get both Emacs and Vim to behave Textmate like in many ways. They are both usable everywhere, including in a terminal. No matter which editor you want to use, you have to learn it and it takes time. A few years back I decided between Emacs and Textmate and learned Emacs - the main reason was because I can still use it when I am forced into a termin…
Not everyone is a huge fan of re-learning how to type. Cause that's really how your doing it, with all the chording and such. Some of us are just used to typing in a box and hitting file->save to save. People create new editors cause there is a need to fill.
All kiding aside, the most important thing about an editor is an ability to customize it, whether it be via Emacs Lisp, Vim Script, or some other means. No software developer or plugin writer is going to be able to anticipate your needs, instead give yourself the ability to fulfil them.
For example, just recently I wrote up a quick Emacs Lisp function to allow me to toggle between header files and source files for C/C++. I'll add a recursive search (to account for more complex project layouts with /inc and /src) after exams.
http://paste.lisp.org/display/77348
For those that think learning to customize an editor takes too long, learning to program takes even longer. You'll learn how to make your editor do anything you want longer before you become an excellent programmer. Textmate and textmate like editors are great shortcuts, but probably crutches in the long run. That being said, Textmate does anticipates the average programmer's needs suprisignly well out of the box, so in that sense it fills a niche.
I know some Mac users who've said they would switch to Linux if there were a TextMate-like editor available. This could be it.
Ever tried Scribes? http://scribes.sourceforge.net/ It has been around for a while, and I think is the closest thing to TextMate under the Gnome environment.
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I'd recommend jEdit. It's my editing weapon of choice for OSX, Linux and Windows. By default it's a bit plain, but the plugins available are fantastic: http://taat.pl/en/jedit/ Download it here: http://www.jedit.org/
I tried JEdit like two years ago or so and found it to be an excellent editor, but that the startup time of approx. 10 seconds was unbearable. Have they fixed that yet?
I know some Mac users who've said they would switch to Linux if there were a TextMate-like editor available. This could be it.
I don't get why people are building these fancy new editors - You can get both Emacs and Vim to behave Textmate like in many ways. They are both usable everywhere, including in a terminal. No matter which editor you want to use, you have to learn it and it takes time. A few years back I decided between Emacs and Textmate and learned Emacs - the main reason was because I can still use it when I am forced into a termin…
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I don't get why people are building these fancy new editors - You can get both Emacs and Vim to behave Textmate like in many ways. They are both usable everywhere, including in a terminal. No matter which editor you want to use, you have to learn it and it takes time. A few years back I decided between Emacs and Textmate and learned Emacs - the main reason was because I can still use it when I am forced into a termin…
The fact that you listed two be-all end-all text editors suggests that neither of them is the perfect solution for everyone...
But isn't writing a text editor one of those garden path problems - a near never ending amount of work to get to just what exists already? I guess I also wonder what inspires developers to start new text editor projects too! Perhaps its just dis-satisfaction with what is there already.