![]() TextMate ships with over thirty 'bundles'. The second third of the book dives into the details of some really sweet features of TextMate that you'll find yourself using all the time: bundles, snippets, macros and UNIX shell commands. The first third of the book is devoted to the basics - things you do every day in your text editor. Edward Gray II has written a very accessible book, that covers the product very well. The Pragmatic Programmers' book, TextMate Power Editing for the Mac is a thorough introduction to TextMate. If you are a software developer or web designer or anyone else that edits text on a frequent basis and you have not already discovered TextMate, stop right now and visit. ![]() This book is the perfect primer for what I have found to be one of the most indispensible Mac OS X applications - TextMate. TextMate is the One True Editor for Mac (it makes me loath using any other editor on any platform) and this is a great book for learning how to *really* take hold of its power. Things I wouldn't have been able to do without TextMate and this book: - Edit some of my Bundles to make TextMate work even more how *I* like - Complete an after-hours Web Site project *way* under time and budget Seriously. The built in TODO list functionality (so crucial!!) - to add a new line below this one and go to the beginning of it. The amount of functionality built into TextMate is incredible, but I didn't even know the half of it until I started reading this book! I don't want to give away the ending, but: Three of my favorite simple features I didn't know about until I read this book: - Pressing to complete the word you're typing. You may be thinking, "200 pages about a text editor!? That's crazy talk!" But you would be wrong, my friend. As with all of the Pragmatic Programmer books, I found this book to be concise without missing anything important. I'm here to tell you that, if you're human you should have a Mac and if you have a Mac you should buy TextMate and if you have TextMate you should buy this book. (As long as you can accept the analogy of "really awesome code running on a Mac" = "robot ninjas".) Anyway, this book targets a pretty specific market: 1) Humans, 2) who own Macs, 3) and use TextMate. "TextMate is actually a thin shell over a personalized team of robot ninjas ready to do your bidding." The funny thing is, to people who have never used TextMate for more than a few minutes the above phrase sounds like an exaggeration.
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