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Maybe the resulting tool is so useful you want to publish it to the world! Many have gone before you: TextMate is used (and has tools, or in TextMate parlance, bundles) for almost every editing task under the sun. These tools can be written from scratch in your favorite shell scripting language, or sent through the ancient tools of your Unix forefathers. So why TextMate? TextMate lets you create tools quickly: tools that you use once to do a specific operation on a lot of text, or tools that you'll use forever.

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I suggest reading it once on the bus or the sofa, or wherever you read MacTech, then run to the computer, download the trial to TextMate, and follow along В– it's best it see this power in action, experience it for yourself. The wild and crazy is out there, and you'll see a bit of it in this guided tour: the fundamental keys of TextMate (and a glimpse into their power) dealing with repetitive text with TextMate's Snippets feature getting Bundles for your language or task customizing TextMate and more. This article is the gonzo-journalist guide to MacroMate's TextMate ( ). TextMate takes 'automatically filling in chunks of repetitive text' beyond anything in your Clippings-brain. At first glance, BBEdit's Clippings feature provides this, but no. but only when you're editing Objective-C code. Type 'objc' and have an entire Objective-C class structure created for you, just waiting for you to fill in the class name. But imagine being able to hit F1 and have a dated comment happen. That doesn't mean things are done sloppily: quickness, efficiency, and (above all) correctness are the name of this game. But text editing isn't necessarily hospital surgery: it's rough and tumble M*A*S*H style just-get-it-done meatball surgery. BBEdit stays out of your way and lets you work, giving you tools to perform fine and sterile surgery on your text. 'No thanks, I use BBEdit!' And I must say, what a fine text editor choice В– still the preferred tool of this author for certain tasks.

You'll be amazed at all the typing you're not doing!

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Why do all that hard work when there's a better way? Read this article and start learning how to really Work Smarter, Not Harder.

Why read this article? 'There's heavy duty text editing lifting to do, and only TextEdit (or XCode's editor) to help me!' you say, 'No time to waste!' But using TextEdit for serious text editing is like moving a house with a crowbar В– hard work. Textmate: Take Your (Text) Editing to the Next LevelД¬olumn Tag: Programming Textmate: Take Your (Text) Editing to the Next Level

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