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TextMate’s parsing for symbols and code folding is broken. It fails with many slightly-nonstandard brace arrangements, and even fails if there is a tab depth difference between closing and opening tags in XML. In addition, it’s symbol list only works correctly about half the time, although I haven’t spent the time yet to figure out under what cases it is [un]successful.

So far in my BBEdit/TextMate showdown, BBEdit is staying slightly ahead, with its fully-working symbol detection, perfect folding, and generally more powerful menus. While most of the functionality in BBEdit is duplicated in various TextMate bundles, all that functionality is then in one huge menu; not exactly the best interface for an efficient workflow.

Still, TextMate has a superior plugin (bundle) architecture and much more extensive code completion. If they can work out some of these issues, TextMate will pull ahead as my editor of choice. As it stands, I use TextMate for most of my general editing, and BBEdit for serious programming.

The UTW-RPC-AutoTag system is available here. This bundle includes a WordPress plugin that exposes the UltimateTagWarrior tag system through xmlrpc and a TextMate bundle that supports pulling your previously used tags directly from your server, like so:

When I used the two download URLs I had to hand-edit them to get them to work. That may or may not be fixed by the time you read this.

I purchased TextMate this evening, which means that I now use $170 worth of text editors on my Mac. I plan to use this as my new blog editing environment. Anyone who writes professionally, whether code or prose, can appreciate the importance of a good text environment.

…just crashed.

Rawr.

• Instant Messaging - Adium
• Video Chat - iChat (built in)
• Web Browser - Safari (built in) and Firefox
• RSS - Vienna and NewsFire
• Terminal/Command Line - iTerm
• Text/Code Editor - TextMate and BBEdit
• S(ecure) FTP - Fugu
• Regular FTP - CyberDuck
• Application Launcher - Spotlight (built in) and Quicksilver
• Cocoa Development - xCode (obviously)
• Visual Java Development - Eclipse with VisualEditor
• Hex Editor - 0xED
• Backup - SuperDuper
• Video Player - Quicktime Pro, MPlayer OSX, VLC
• Image Editor - Seashore
• BitTorrent Client - xTorrent
• Virtual Desktops - VirtueDesktops
• Virtualization - VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop
• Newsgroups - Thunderbird (sloooooow, hoping to buy Unison)
• E-Mail - Apple Mail (built in)
• Music - iTunes (duh)
• Office - NeoOffice and Microsoft Office:Mac 2004 (when necessary)