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Re: IDE for OSX

by Your Mother (Archbishop)
on Aug 15, 2009 at 05:01 UTC ( [id://788826]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to IDE for OSX

I am a 20 year Mac user and TextMate is great. I use Emacs for the most part for Perl simply out of familiarity and I'm in the terminal most of the time anyway but I use TextMate for LaTeX and several other things (JavaScript, CSS, HTML are quite nice in it for example). It has fabulous plugins and is very customizable.

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Re^2: IDE for OSX (textmate vs emacs)
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 16, 2009 at 13:11 UTC

      Those are all good discussions. I do feel TextMate a bit like a reimagined Emacs. It's really extremely deep / extensible / customizable. I'm a dilettante with TM still though. I wish I had more time to get up to speed with it so I could use it as fast as Emacs with Perl in particular. I do find even touching the mouse when working (as some of the comments in the ORLY article mentioned) to be an annoyance / drag.

      A pro about TM I didn't see discussed is that despite its cost to purchase (which is trivial for a tool of its depth/usefulness) it is open-source oriented. They push out updates and accept contributions and such regularly. Oh, also, something that has kept me from being a true power-user of Emacs is I'm Lisp-challenged. I can do some simple stuff but... TM has a bundle-editor which is extremely cool. You can change all your control keys etc, etc, and see the whole stack of bundles together (ActionScript - YAML and all points between). It's really very impressive.

        Yeah I know, it takes long to master Emacs. (It's a lot like Perl ;)

        But I can't afford not buy a Mac just to use an editor. ;-) (and I don't wanna dependent on a special OS either)

        This screencast of TM and HTML-Coding is impressive http://macromates.com/screencast/insert_html_tags.mov but AFAIK yasnippet.el allows to import TM -Snippets into emacs.

        Maybe you wanna try it out, and tell us more about it. 8-)

        If you think it's OT in perlmonks you may wanna join http://groups.google.com/group/emacs-perl-intersection?pli=1

        Concerning elisp - (I'm a beginner too ;-) there are projects to use perl-scripting from within emacs communicating with a long-running perl-process (Sepia, PDE,EPL), but I think the overhead of just forking a single perl-process every time from LISP is not big enough to motivate people to use them :(

        Maybe it could be possible to mimic the TM User Interface in Emacs just by translating every "apple-key" binding to the "windows-key" ?

        Cheers Rolf

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