Giving the Mac editor Textmate a try for source code, html, css, etc.

I did most of my program editing in the IDE/editors that came with the language.  Visual Basic v2,3,4,5 & 6 came with a fairly productive environment.  I liked Turbo C before that.  Visual Studio combined Microsoft’s languages into one environment.  Delphi was pretty cool.  And the VBA editors in MS Office were functional.

UltraEdit was and is the best text editor I’ve used in Windows.

I tried E- TextEditor for Windows.  It uses the cygwin shell on Windows but it just didn’t feel quite right for me.  I tried Intype also but it has a way to go.

I am using Vim more and more.  It works across most platforms that I find myself using.  Vim installs with the Linux flavors that I use.  For that reason I learned to do basic editing in Vim since it was always there.  Over time I learned more features and climbed that steep learning curve in Vim.  I’m almost surprised to say that I miss Vim’s features in other editors.

After reading the book Texmate looks promising.