With nothing better to post...
I changed my desktop for the first time since getting my Mac today. It is now one of my own photos, edited:
On another geeky note, I miss tab-completion outside the terminal. Those image URLs were far too laborious to type…
Which is why TextMate is such a fantastic text editor. Or rather, it’s one of the reasons why. Column selection is another I’m surprised I’ve never thought of myself. Snippets and commands work brilliantly. I’m growing to love it more and more. (I need a new syntax highlighting scheme though. The current one is so 2005.)
Currently listening to Radiohead – Subterranean Homesick Alien
Matthew @ 12:28, May 25, 2006 to Geek | Comments (7)
Comments:
Mr E
OK, I opened TextMate to remind myself what it was like and found there was a new version which it offered to download for me, so I thought I might as well. Then it tells me it’s going to stop working after 30 days unless I give them €39…
Comment added at 14:25, May 25, 2006
Matthew
Yes, it’s shareware. No, that’s not a bad thing. You realise the maker works full-time writing TextMate as well as offering support to those who buy it?
It’s worth every cent. I’d probably have bought it if it was over €50.
Watch the screencasts just to get an idea how good it is.
Oh, and my version of SEE stopped working last week as I didn’t give them €35.
Comment added at 01:49, May 26, 2006
Mark
Column select is enabled in most generic Mac windows (ones that use NSTextView I think) after a fashion. Hold down alt in a window (like this one) and see what happens to the cursor. Also try apple-. half way through a word (that doesn’t seem to work in Safari though)
Comment added at 09:14, May 26, 2006
Matthew
That Apple-. thing is brilliant! I guess it’s only NSTextView though, as it doesn’t work in Camino either. The column selection isn’t bad though. Not quite up to TextMate’s feature, but I shall remember it in future.
Comment added at 09:38, May 26, 2006
Mr E
Textmate does have some pretty cool features, including some nice tools for writing TeX (it even has a built-in Build command, that’s pretty useful!)
Perhaps I will think about buying it, but if not I always have TextWrangler or SEE (which still hasn’t asked me to register) to fall back on.
Comment added at 10:18, May 26, 2006
Penguin
Ooh, I see a recurring theme of Sun through Trees…
(Just stopped myself using HTML in time. Again.)
Comment added at 22:50, May 28, 2006
Matthew
But now with added Red!
Comment added at 23:15, May 28, 2006
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