Fri, 04 May 2007
Textmate
James Edward Gray II, Textmate:
Power Editing for the Mac, The Pragmatic Programmers
Text editors with any serious pretensions to handle coding
usually gather vociferous fans around them who then spread the
word - and, of course, the Emacs vs Vi religious wars have been
proceeding for quite some time. Textmate isn't going to threaten
either of those two anytime soon for two main reasons - it is
not cross-platform and only comes for Mac OS 10, and it is not
free. You can check it out at macromates.com.
While this is most definitely not Open Source, it does have
the continual work done on it that popular shareware programs
usually have - email or post to a forum with your concerns and
you'll hear back in a reasonably prompt way.
This book takes you through the operation of Textmate, from
the creation of a project, to moving around and various keyboard
shortcuts including various emacs-like bindings. There're also
reasonable sections on scripting and regular expressions.
So, you might ask, what's the point? Emacs and Vi/Vim will
or can be made to do pretty much anything you can dream up and
are free and cross-platform (what happens when you're forced to do
a job on say, a Windows box??). The answer is here in this book -
some people find traditional Unix tools somewhat impenetrable,
and this app with it's native Mac UI is said to solve that
problem.
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Bollywood
Shobhaa De, Bollywood Nights, Penguin
Here we have a novel set in the world of ... guess! Yes,
of course, the world of eye-rolling, passionate, over-the-top,
Bollywood - which is the Indian not very equivalent of
Hollywood.
In this book we have the sort of cast who might grace one
of these movies and who, generally, are as likable as...
well, not very likable. That's beside the point of course.
It's a yarn meant to amuse and people who find the idea of the thing
appealing for a weekend read might find the book so as well.
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