My Friend Textmate

by: Andrew Johnson

Screenshot of my TextMate setup

TextMate Icon

One thing that has come up frequently in recent conversations is TextMate. While not as configurable as vim or emacs, TextMate has quickly become my favorite all time text editor on any platform. It is extremely powerful yet still easy to use and to customize.

Unfortunately it is a bit lacking out of the box and really needs some configuring. There are also many plugins and bundles out there but finding good ones requires a lot of utilization of Google.

Thus to make getting started with TM easier I have compiled a short list of the various bundles, plugins, and themes that I use in my setup.

Theme

  • Twilight (built-in)

Bundles (Extra)

  • subtleGradient — Thomas Aylott’s Awesome text processing bundle (be sure to checkout the Balance Jr functions) svn
  • ACK “Fin in Project” Bundle here
  • YUI Compressor Bundle here
  • Ruby Saas Bundle here
  • Markdown Bundle svn
  • JavaScript jQuery Bundle svn

Plugins

  • Dialog 2 — TextMate 2 dialog plugins svn
  • ReMate — Used to disable the automatic project tree refresh when TextMate regains focus here
  • ProjectPlus — Ciarán Walsh’s awesome project drawer plugin. Makes working with projects much nicer. here
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