I know some more hardy Mac users than I have forced themselves to get used to some flavour of Eclipse (FDT or FlashBuilder), but I just cannot bring myself to do it. It’s a Windows app that still feels like a Windows app on OSX. It just looks a mess to me. Nearly every other app I use on a daily basis functions as I expect OSX apps to function – beautifully and intuitively – with the notable exception of just about anything by Adobe, but that’s to be expected.

Thus, I love TextMate. It’s light, it’s quick, it’s OSX to the core and its sidebar is the Finder. But the main thing that makes TextMate great is its expandability with Bundles. Simon Gregory has for a while now been maintaining the only AS3 bundle worth a look and a good while ago now it got really, really good with the addition of text completion.

Check out the video:

Not to be too melodramatic, but this little bundle has changed my life. No word of a lie. Recommended.

August 30th, 2009 by Ad.
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