Linked below is a short screencast on how I use the text editor known as TextWrangler to wrangle text into usable formats. This particular episode illustrates how I create coded HTML from my weekly Arizona Republic column. In future screencasts, I’ll want to illustrate more arcane ideas about deploying robust software toward highly productive objectives.
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Sonja says:
It’s wonderful to find programs that you perform tasks more efficiently. But despite Bare Bones Software’s reputation as the text editor of choice for Macs, I’ve never quite been able to embrace their approach. I’m absolutely in love with TextMate, though. As an example of its efficiency and power, I use a TextMate function that allows me to wrap all my paragraphs in paragraph tags with a single keystroke. No multi-step find-and-replace needed. I can also wrap a bunch of paragraphs in list-item tags or turn a word or phrase into a link with a single keyboard command — along with many other built-in and custom TextMate snippets.
TextMate is also language-aware. When I’m working in an html document, it gives me html auto-completion. When I’m working in a php block, it gives me php auto-completion. And so forth.
I won’t knock TextWrangler — Bare Bones has a great reputation. But you might want to take a look at other text editors.
(Disclaimer: I have no relationship with TextMate at all, except as a happy user.)
November 25, 2008 — 6:51 am
Greg Swann says:
Thanks, Sonja. I’ll play with TextMate. I’ve been using versions of BBEdit since 1988, I think, possibly earlier.
But the point of the screencast was to induce ordinary people — most of whom use Windows — to learn to think efficiently about their software, to learn how to do seemingly difficult jobs quickly and easily.
November 25, 2008 — 10:58 am