I just discovered Textmate this very day and I'm instantly in love
with it.
Although J-EDit was powerfull I didn't like the unorthodox way it
handled documents (e.g. switching between docs using a drop down,
errors when loading docs, slow etc).
Textmate is absolutely a joy to use - so OS/X friendly and if you use
Aparajita's 'bundles' for it (http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/
products/Active4D/downloads/v4/tm.zip) it's almost like being back in
4D's method editor.
It took me about 10 seconds to switch since it just makes working in
Active4D so much more comfortable. (And it's FAST !).
Definitely recommend it.
Peter
On 21 Mar 2007, at 18:17, Brad Perkins wrote:
Jim Rietz wrote:
On Mar 21, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Brad Perkins wrote:
I know there are a few TextMate editor fans here and believe that
there is a TextMate bundle for Active4D.
FWIW... The more I use TextMate, the more features I find.
The most recent is the GetBundle bundle. This should be a standard
install. Once installed, you are able to add bundles from
TextMate's subversion repository of bundles. There are currently
147 or so. There is an automatic bundle updater, also.
e Text Editor has a similar feature for grabbling new bundles.
FWIW, I tried to download the Active4D bundle (it is zipped) from
the Active4D web site to my Windows machine and Winzip totally
chokes on it. That wasn't unexpected though. When I get some time
I'll try to pull the Active4D bundle from the SVN repository and
see how/if it works in e Text Editor.
A mention on another forum led me to "E Text Editor". See http://
www.e-texteditor.com/index.html
I haven't tried it, but this editor is touted as supporting
TextMate Bundles.
Might useful for Active4D development?
I'll have to take a quick look at it, but it's going to be hard to
beat TM.
You probably wouldn't want to switch. This is Windows only. This
editor might be useful for those of us who need to work in Windows.
Also, if you are doing any web development (aren't we all), you
should try FireFox with an addon named Firebug. Not only does it
display (and allow editing) a ton of information, including css
hierarchy, but will allow tracing of javascript. And (there's
more), you can set break points - manually or automatically on any
error.
I second this. I'm currently working on another project that uses
AJAX and the jQuery Javascript library that would be a nightmare
without Firebug. Being able to trace XHR (XMLHttpRequest) is
immensely useful.
I also recommend the Firefox Web Developer toolbar.
best,
Brad
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