Jun 22

Textmate as the ultimate editor

Tag: latex, mac, os x, php, stata — admin @ 4:10 pm

With dozens of “bundles” that allow for application-specific editing, the Mac text editor TextMate is a great tool for the researcher. I posted four screenshots below for Stata, LaTeX, Matlab and PHP. The most powerful is PHP as there is a default bundle that lets you run the script directly from the file. With a little work (install TeX on your Mac), you can easily compile and view your LaTeX files. The quick command(e.g. “begin + “tab”) make editing a breeze. What I like most is the syntax highlighting that it brings to editing .m and .do files.  Moreover, you can create “projects” that let you easily handle multiple files.

Textmate with Stata

Textmate and Stata

Textmate with LaTeX

Textmate and Latex

Textmate with PHP

Textmate and PHP

Textmate with Matlab

Textmate and Matlab

2 Responses to “Textmate as the ultimate editor”

  1. Weichang Li says:
    October 20th, 2007 at 8:40 pm

    hi- I was doing a search trying to resolve a problem with making matlab bundle work for textmate while I ran into your post. My problem is that I could load the bundle successfully into textmate but for some reason the .m files do not get syntax highlights. My suspect is that .m has been treated as Objective-C source file rather than matlab source by the UTI system of Mac OS 10.4. So I am curious whether you had the same problem and how to work around this.

    It would be great if you could drop me an email. Thanks.

  2. Glenn says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 4:44 am

    Hi,

    I’m also having a problem getting syntax highlighting for matlab in textmate. A solution to this would be much appreciated.

    Cheers

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