Ask YC: Mac Text Editors

Re:Ask YC: Mac Text Editors by pixpop on Friday May 16, 2008 @04:37PM (#192201)

Cost is a lousy reason to choose something else over Textmate. It's high quality software, worth every penny.

Having said that, I paid for Textmate and used it for a couple of months before chucking it in favor of emacs. I'd never used emacs before, though my first editor was TECO for those who remember. I started with Aquamacs emacs, which I found no more difficult to pick up than Textmate. Ultimately, I switched to Carbon emacs, because it is more like the emacs I use on Linux and Cygwin.

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Re:Ask YC: Mac Text Editors by cooldude127 on Friday May 16, 2008 @06:07PM (#192277)

this sounds a lot like what I did. I own a license to textmate, but lately i have been using Emacs a lot more. I love it. Textmate still has a special place in my heart, but right now Emacs just supports more of what I need, and it works with all my platforms.

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Re:Ask YC: Mac Text Editors by jacobolus on Friday May 16, 2008 @10:36PM (#192428)

> Emacs just supports more of what I need

What, specifically?

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