TextMate alongside more traditional heavies like OmniOutliner,
NetNewsWire, and Delicious Library:
TextMate by Macromates is a fabulous text editor for programmers
and designers. TextMate offers easy ways to manage your project,
keep it organized and automate monotonous tasks. Managing code and
markup are made much easier by this application, too. Because most
projects require many files, TextMate is also great because it
helps you manage all these files. The most commonly used features
are the dynamic file outline that allows you to arrange your files
in an outline and keep your changes up to date, tabs that make
jumping between files simple, a clipboard history so you will never
forget where you are going and where you have been and the ability
to hide what you don’t use with foldings. TextMate consistently
gets high ratings and you can’t beat it for the money.
Some of the MacZealots crew use TextMate to write drafts of
stories, create sample code for tutorials and even as a quick
outliner. The reason is because TextMate is so lightweight compared
to applications like Microsoft Word and Xcode. With less system
overhead, we can use our dilapidated iBooks to work on the road.