SubEthaEdit and TextMate
December, 15 2005 12:30 AM Filed in: Software
Since I seem
to spend so much of my time writing text I thought
I'd mention my current favorite text editors,
SubEthaEdit and TextMate. SubEtha what? Named in
honor of Douglas Adams, this funny sounding software
title, SubEthaEdit, is perhaps one of
the very best text editors for Mac OS X. As a web
developer I've used a whole range of text editors
over the years: BBEdit, TextWrangler, TextEdit,
and most recently TextMate.
I could use Apple's free Text Edit which is included with every Mac and I have. But Text Edit lacks two features that I'd like to have for web development. Color coded display of html and browser preview. SubEthaEdit has both. It's html preview uses Apple's very own WebKit and so with a Command-R I get a new window that displays my page just as Safari would. This preview page updates live as I make changes to the html. Nice!! The program also integrates well with ftp cilents such as Transmit.
Another unique feature is it's collaboratory capabilities. Each SubEthaEdit document can be shared via Apple's Bonjour technology. I can open a document and in a couple of clicks others on my network (or on the internet) can add content to my document in real time. I see what they type as they type it and they see what I'm typing as well. Very cool and useful for creating meeting notes/minutes.
TextMate is my other favorite text editor and is probably my favorite. I don't use many of the features TextMate offers I enjoy the ability to open Projects consisting of a folder of files. Also, the tabs are great! Last, the auto-complete of html tags is a real time saver. Like SubEthaEdit, Transmit also works well with other apps such as Transmit or Ecto.
I could use Apple's free Text Edit which is included with every Mac and I have. But Text Edit lacks two features that I'd like to have for web development. Color coded display of html and browser preview. SubEthaEdit has both. It's html preview uses Apple's very own WebKit and so with a Command-R I get a new window that displays my page just as Safari would. This preview page updates live as I make changes to the html. Nice!! The program also integrates well with ftp cilents such as Transmit.
Another unique feature is it's collaboratory capabilities. Each SubEthaEdit document can be shared via Apple's Bonjour technology. I can open a document and in a couple of clicks others on my network (or on the internet) can add content to my document in real time. I see what they type as they type it and they see what I'm typing as well. Very cool and useful for creating meeting notes/minutes.
TextMate is my other favorite text editor and is probably my favorite. I don't use many of the features TextMate offers I enjoy the ability to open Projects consisting of a folder of files. Also, the tabs are great! Last, the auto-complete of html tags is a real time saver. Like SubEthaEdit, Transmit also works well with other apps such as Transmit or Ecto.
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