Don’t forget that you can add even more features by installing extensions.
I have left many other features that you can find in these code editors, such as text-processing, symbol searching, and other automations.
These have been the features that I use the most every day. To delete a search result, just select it and remove it as if it was regular text.Īs you might expect, you don’t have the learning feature that TextMate 2 and Sublime Text 3 implement. They are grouped by file and can be collapsed, just as you can collapse the implementation of a function in any other file. The results are displayed in a completely different way: they show in a text file as if it was just another one of the project. In Sublime Text 3, the search feature appears below, supporting the same features as TextMate 2. What I like about this system is that once you double-click on a result, the window is placed in the background, and when you open it again, it remains in the same state.Īnother thing I like about this editor is that when you type in the replace box, you can see in the search results how they will be replaced. Finally, you can select the desired files to replace what you are looking for with another string. The search results are precise, grouped by file, which can be collapsed or removed from the list. One more note - all the pictures I’ve published in the last few days are of the Fog Creek office, of course, taken recently by photographer Gregg Conde.It supports regular expressions, ignore case, ignore whitespace, search in a directory, search history (as a clipboard), search specific file-types, and more.
I still have to say that composing large amounts of text with Word 2007 on Windows XP is a better experience, all told, because of the autocorrection and the better screen display. It was like a Windows 3.1 deja vu all over again thing. If anybody is aware of this problem and knows of a specific fix I’d love to hear of it. If I try to wait it out the beachball will still be spinning the next morning. It was always the same problem: the Wifi network would go down for a second, something which happens to everyone, but on Windows, it just comes back, while on the Mac, I get a spinning colored ball and everything is frozen.
I probably had to reboot the MacBook Pro (hard reboot - hold down the power button for five seconds) about every two hours. Apple has some room to improve in this area the fonts were blurry on the edges.Īlso, I don’t understand all these people who say that Macs never crash. OS X antialiasing, especially, it seems, with the monospaced fonts, just isn’t as good as Windows ClearType. Even Markdown source is quite clean and still highly readable, useful if you need to post the same content to Usenet or use it in plain text somewhere. Markdown is a very simple way to format text, for example, putting *asterisks* around text that you want italicized it generates nice clean HTML.
TextMate is an “emacs inspired” editor for the Mac, with tons of build-in stuff for editing different types of text files that they call Bundles.
The combination I found that made me happiest was TextMate in Markdown mode.
I was trying to find appropriate software that I could use to compose long articles that felt smooth on a Mac, that generated extremely clean HTML, and that generated curly quotes (“”) which I’ve grown fond of, especially for longer articles. Normally I use CityDesk to compose things for Joel on Software, but the long articles on recruiting were written from home where I have a MacBook Pro (CityDesk is Windows only).