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Robert MannI wrote:

I'm using TextMate. I'd love to try out VIM.

Would anyone use anything *else* than TextMate if on a Mac ? :slight_smile: hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink.

p.s. Oh my god!.. I just realized how old this thread is! prev-post is early2006.

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Robert MannI wrote:

I'm using TextMate. I'd love to try out VIM.

Would anyone use anything *else* than TextMate if on a Mac ? :slight_smile: hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink.

Yes, of course, there's a lot of people using VIM on a Mac.

p.s. Oh my god!.. I just realized how old this thread is! prev-post is early2006.

Nevermind, these questions never get old fashioned. :slight_smile:

By the way, I'm using VIM on a linux box.

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Shawn Koppenhoefer wrote:

Robert MannI wrote:

I'm using TextMate. I'd love to try out VIM.

Would anyone use anything *else* than TextMate if on a Mac ? :slight_smile: hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink.

I'm using KomodoEdit on a Mac. I refuse to spend all that money on a text editor.

p.s. Oh my god!.. I just realized how old this thread is! prev-post is early2006.

Best,

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For quick hacking sessions or really small projects I use vim with a bunch of plugins. For every day work I use Netbeans. It's a great IDE for Ruby/Python/PHP after some configuration effort. I'm working on linux boxes, however a friend at work uses successfuly Netbeans on his MacBook.

Łukasz Badura | http://www.badurowie.org

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Looks like I'm the only one using Ruby in Steel (Ruby plugin for Visual Studio). I love it, but I'm a Windows user primarily and I use Visual Studio for my work programming anyways.

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Łukasz Badura wrote:

For quick hacking sessions or really small projects I use vim with a bunch of plugins. For every day work I use Netbeans. It's a great IDE for Ruby/Python/PHP after some configuration effort. I'm working on linux boxes, however a friend at work uses successfuly Netbeans on his MacBook.

I too use NetBean, but I also do no small amount of Java EE work. I prefer Coda to TextMate. For quick edits vi has been, and always will be, my friend.

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I used Netbeans a fair amount, but I just purchased a license for Rubymine.. So for me, it's gonna be Rubymine and gVim + irb :slight_smile:

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I use Netbeans as well but itā€™s not as good as eclipse which I use for java.

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I have used NetBeans (on Linux) in the past, but I am switching to Komodo Edit. I was purely using NetBeans as a text editor (no debugging, no running rake/script tasks, etc.), so I figure I might as well use a lighter weight editor.

I had tried using Komodo Edit before (prior to version 5.2), but it had crashed on me occasionally, which I thought was very odd since I wasn't pushing it particularly hard. So far, version 5.2 seems stable.

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VIM is pretty good when you add in the Nerd Tree plugin (NERD_tree.vim). You can also get the snippets working similar to TextMate with the (snippetsEmu.vim). Thatā€™s typically what I use when Iā€™m not on my home computer and I need to login to my remote dev box to make some quick updates or changes. Iā€™ve tried to break away from TextMate a few times but Iā€™ve been unsuccessfulā€¦ They have a stranglehold on me.

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I'll probably get flamed for this, but I really like Coda for all my coding purposes. :slight_smile:

I used TextMate and a few others over the years -- Eclipse, Aptana, VIM...well I still use VIM and sometimes Nano for a quick edit -- but I just like how Coda feels. Plus, if you dial in your local settings for your Coda project you get the built-in preview right in the IDE like Eclipse. I hear Espresso is pretty decent too, but most Rails folks I know use TextMate probably due to the multitude of snips and bundles for Rails. I still pop into TextMate occasionally, but I'm hooked on Coda now. :slight_smile:

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If not Text Mateā€¦ then EMACS

Best Wishes, Saideep Annadatha