TextMate: I finally purchased a license

TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS X

I call it "The MacroMate Commercial Emacs for Mac OS X".

Why did I spend the money today? Jan L. SQL application on OS X better interacted with TextMate than with GNU Emacs, and don't bother whose fault it is.

Time was simply ripe for this decision. I never seriously needed TextMate before, but as for GNU emacs Mac OS X is not really the main platform, occasionally you reach points, where you prefer more perfection, and at least on OS X TextMate is a reliable and also feature rich text editor.

TextMate Blog » Tabbing Shortcuts on Mac OS X

TextMate Blog » Tabbing Shortcuts

TextMate: Forward Incremental Search

That's emacs's isearch-forward, and for both the keyboard shortcut is C-s.

Leaving TextMate – Coming Home to Vim / Jamis Buck

the { buckblogs :here }: Coming home to Vim

Leaving TextMate – Coming Home to Vim / Steve Losh

Coming Home to Vim / Steve Losh

• TextMate does not have split windows
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TextMate style "snippets" for Emacs

An article talking about YASnippet. So maybe after having learnt, how powerful TextMate is, I will reconvert back to Emacs, using YASnippet "of course". A few words on snippets ...