TextMate for Mac

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After 2 years of coding using TextMate, I wish to share with you my love for this great great tool.

If you are a programmer, you own a Mac and you are reading my articles, I bet you have heard about TextMate, since it bacame recently almost THE editor for Macs.

At at first glance this editor might look too basic if you have been using software like Eclipse or NetBeans. It actually took me few months to realize how cool TextMate is.

The software is very lightweight and it's full of features which you don't have to deal with when you are a beginner because they are all optional and hidden. The feeling is to code using the former WordPad for windows but soon you'll find shortcuts for the handy features it has and you'll get in love with it.

Here what I like the most of TextMate:

File Navigator: very quick and handy, anywhere you are, just type command+T and you'll get a list of files in your project, ordered by last opened and with the most recent highlighted. A (focused) textbox let you find the other files, very quickly.
Symbol Navigator: it's very similar to what explained above but it works on methods, function, properties inside files.
Boundles: this is a list of preset list of code which add functionality to TextMate when you are editing your code. To clarify, TM comes with shortcuts to the code syntax routines for many popular languages, plus it has code validators, compilers, and many other tools, like DIFF, SVN, Math functions, shell scripts, FTP, color picker and others.
Low RAM usage: TM wont crash your computer at all, it uses a very tiny amount of memory.