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TextMate – my new mate

Through reading a link on Slashdot on how the Ruby on Rails cool-aid is so much better then PHP (it’s apparently like comparing Java to Assembly) that I have done what I usually do and read tons and tons about Ruby and these Rails. Which brought me to a cute little movie on how to start out with rails featuring TextMate, the missing OS X editor.

I’m an avid fan of Vim, and I love it to death. I am also an avid fan of simplicity whilst Vim does provide in a convoluted way TextMate just seems to ‘click’. Whilst TextMate is quite new (ver 1 for a few months now) and it’s website front page has got enough moving things (albeit with a purpose) to make me sea sick there is definately a ring to it.

So I took the plunge this morning and downloaded a fresh copy, played with it for 15 mins and decided that it was cool enough to be placed permanetly on my dock. Then with a few clicks I purchased a copy (about $67AUD) through PayPal using the profits I made of selling some junk on Ebay… So now it’s Textmate time!

Let’s see if it makes me any more productive with my wp-mail hacks…