Textmate for windows code#
Textmate for windows windows#

Textmate for windows code#

However, VimScript is not exactly a very pleasant language to code in and Vim does not actually like to interface with external tools much. These range from file browsers to support for new languages, or even some limited integration with compilers or source control tools. There is a huge wealth of plugins available. Vim even includes its very own scripting language, VimScript, to enable users to extend it. You customize Vim by editing simple text files.

Textmate for windows windows#

Of course, there is no graphical preferences windows to do the customization in. There are various registers for saving text or locations, there is an increadibly powerful macro system, amazing searching capabilities, command line integration, there are specialized functions for programmingвЂ¦ Really, when it comes to pure text editing chops, nothing beats Vim. And when it comes to changing that text, Vim is no slouch, either. But of course, you are not limited to just viewing one file at a time either: Vim supports arbitrary split views and can even be used for efficient diffing or merging. Usually, any place in the current file is reachable using just a few key strokes. Moving the cursor is especially powerful. Watching a seasoned Vimmer do his keyboard dance is something to behold. Thus it should come as no surprise that you can do anything with these shortcuts at astounding speed. And what shortcuts there are! Pretty much every key on the keyboard has some special function, most keys even serve multiple functions depending on what mode you are in at the moment. This is at really Vim's greatest strength and weakness: In its 'normal mode', all key presses are interpreted like keyboard shortcuts in other programs. In fact, in its normal mode it won't even type out the characters you hit on your keyboard. Since Vim predates graphical displays altogether, it does not adhere to its standards much. Everything is displayed in terms of rectangular characters, hence scrolling can only ever scroll one line at a time and there are no graphical images anywhere. There are no graphical drawers or animations or pixel-precise scrolling. The terminal inheritance limits its graphical capabilities somewhat. Hence, all of its functionality is really meant to be used from the keyboard only, even though mousing is supported these days. It grew up in text based terminals without any graphical windows or mouses. It is a more or less direct descendant of ed from the early 1970s. And if it's not in a plug-in, then you can handle it with the File Watchers.Vim is very old software. Most external tools/tasks can be handled with WebStorm. It's also recommended to more explicitly represent your workflow within WebStorm itself. It should be noted though that this is easily remedied by going to File/Settings/System Settings and checking the 'Synchronize Files on frame or editor tab activation' option. You usually remember to do that anyway after you've been trying to track down a bug on a line of JavaScript that Webstorm says doesn't exist for the last two hours.

There's a feature in the context-menu for manually synchronising directories with their real filesystem equivalent, but this shouldn't be necessary and is annoying to do. If you have an external tool acting on your project (such as a gulp task or a third-party Git client), what you see in the file browser or in open tabs becomes out-of-date. Non-native filesystem causes issues The Java wrapper around the filesystem doesn't actively watch for file changes (by, for example, using the fsevents api on OS X), and as a result can become easily desynchronised from the actual filesystem. For casual, unsophisticated applications by someone who grew up with green screen character based computers, it's probably OK. For this reason, I would not recommend Emacs to anyone who is under 50 year old, or who needs power user capabilities. The things I just mentioned, are all present in some limited and inept form, but falls far short of current standard of good user interface design.

To this day, it lacks or struggles with very basic things, like interactive dialogs, toolbars, tabbed interface, file system navigation, etc., etc. So Emacs does 5% or what an editor should do quite will, and is surprisingly under-powered and old fashioned at the other 95%. Unfortunately, it didn't keep up with the times and fails to take advantage of the entire world of GUI design that's revolutionized computer science since then. In fairness to Emacs, its original design was conceived in that context and is rather good at some things, like flexible ability to bind commands to keyboard shortcuts. User interface is terrible I was using Emacs in the early 1980's, before there were GUIs.