
On the Floor
I recently decided to give up on NetBeans as my editor/IDE for my rails development as it was bogging my system down too much. It, coupled with 20 open tabs in Firefox, and my countless desktop widgets were making my system unusable. Rather than cut back on widgets, I've decided to give Textmate another shot, and have been really happy with it, after an initial period of adjustment.
This adjustment period has been made a lot easier by GetBundles. This handy little bundle, incidentally, has allowed me to continue with my plugin/habit habit. It itself, is an easy install, and it allows you to install other bundles through the TextMate UI.
There were initially a few almost show-stoppers for me, in particular the really slow "search in project" functionality. As a replacement, I've been using "ack in project" which I installed through GetBundles.
After modifying the .ackrc file as below to have ack search all file types and group, it returns useful search results REALLY quickly:
One thing that I still miss from NetBeans is the ability to ctrl-tab through my open files, like in Firefox. TextMate allows for switching b/w open files, but only from left to right in the list of files you currently have open. Has anyone found a way to get ctrl-tab type switching working in TextMate?
Other than this minor adjustment I've had to make in the way I navigate, I've found the switch fairly easy, and definitely appreciate the lack of overhead in this lightweight editor.
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If you like ack in project, you should check out AckMate: http://github.com/protocool/AckMate
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