Helen Johnson

Now that I am using a MacBook Pro for work I have had to change the way I do some things. The two main programs that I use everyday are Photoshop, for website design, and a text editor, for html/css development. While Photoshop works the same on both platforms (especially now that CS3 supports Intel Macs) the problem was finding a new text/html editor.

For the last few years I have been using EditPlus for all html and css coding. It’s a great little program and I got to know it well, but alas, it is not made for Macs. When searching for a new editor to use, I was pointed in the direction of TextMate.

While they are the same in result, they are both very different in practice. Being a Windows program, in EditPlus everything is much more visual. Menus and options are displayed in toolbars for easy access. TextMate, on the other hand, is more reliant on keyboard shortcuts and little nifty things called tab triggers. In TextMate there are no buttons to click to save your work or to open a document, you either need to use the program dropdown menu or learn the shortcuts.

I still miss EditPlus, but TextMate has been a good replacement so far and I am still learning how to get the most out of it.