I know fuel is sexy for factor editing right now, but there's no reason Textmate
can't do the same thing.  Now, the textmate bundle supports pretty much
everything fuel does, and a wee bit more:

Everything is on github at http://github.com/bogiebro/factor/tree/master

Advantages over fuel:
- auto expansion of repetitive syntaxes (cond, case, hashtables, :, if)
- wrapping of selection in braces (with spaces)
- standard textmate paired characters
- no real installation procedure (just double click)
- uses textmate rather than ugly emacs

Disadvantages:
- no auto-insertion of using statements
- no auto-help (though you can show it manually)
- no running factor inside the editor (but the ui listener is cooler anyway)
- no auto completion beyond words used in the current document
- textmate is costly and is only for macosx

Features overall:
- cycle code, docs and tests (scaffolding the docs if they don't exist)
- extract selection as separate word
- reload or run documents in the listener
- walk, macro-expand, profile, infer or time any selection
- set and clear breakpoints on words
- tools in the editors vocab (fix, edit, edit-vocab, etc)
- scaffold new vocabs, created in the same root vocab as whatever is already
open, in work by default
- stop typing all those braces for combinators
- get help on words while editing
- crossref tools (usage., vocab-usage., etc)
- evaluate expressions in place, replacing them with the result
- show the correct USING statement for the current document

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