Ask HN: Textmate Alternatives?

Re:Ask HN: Textmate Alternatives? by nzadrozny on Thursday December 30, 2010 @03:09PM (#2053443)

MacVim + PeepOpen (http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen) are a pretty decent alternative, particularly if you already have some experience in vim.

If you don't have a history of vim mastery, you should still think about it. Yehuda Katz wrote an interesting blog article[1] on his experience switching to MacVim as a vim beginner relying on OSX-isms.

1. http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convi...

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Re:Ask HN: Textmate Alternatives? by trampsymphony on Thursday December 30, 2010 @03:31PM (#2053518)

FWIW, I just switched from Textmate to MacVim 6 days ago, and am already nearly as productive in it as I was on Textmate (no prior vim experience)

I personally found it best to just embrace the vimness (with cheat-sheets beside my monitor). I barely accomplished any work on day 1, but by the end of day 2 I was moving along pretty comfortably.

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Re:Ask HN: Textmate Alternatives? by Deadsunrise on Thursday December 30, 2010 @04:17PM (#2053627)

I switched some months ago and I'm not going back. Don't forget to install vimperator on firefox too.

I posted some screenshots of my setup here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2053516

Using tmux instead of normal terminal tabs is also a huge improvement.

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