At 08:49 p -0700 07/27/2011, Brett Kelly didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
I'm developer/writer who has, historically, been a vim (MacVim,
specifically) user who is investigating other editors that have a bit
better integration with OS X. The majority of my work is editing HTML/
XML, Python and PHP as well as writing a fair bit of regular old
English prose.
Sounds like a good fit so far. ;)
If somebody asked me why I use vim, I'd tell them it's because you can
configure it to do just about anything you want, you never have to
touch the mouse and there is a vibrant, active developer community
surrounding it that has built all manner of customizations for it.
If I asked a TextMate user why they use it, they'd probably tell me
about all the stuff that can be done with Bundles and snippets (there
may be more, I don't really know).
If somebody asked you, my new friend, why you use BBEdit, what would
you tell them?
It's hard to speak in generalities, but you can certainly do a lot
with the keyboard in BBEdit. You can script text processing in Perl
or AppleScript (etc.; I assume Python as well) and assign it a
keyboard shortcut, you can script a workflow helper thing in
AppleScript (have you viewed the AS dictionary in BBEdit? It's quite
comprehensive), and of course lots of other people have processing
thingies (er, scripts; I'm tired) available.
Thanks for your time and please tell me if there's anything I can add
or clarify that would make my question easier to answer.
Well, anything more specific. If there's something particular about
vim which you are hoping exists or can be simulated in BBEdit, just
say what it is and folks will respond to that specifically. I don't
know how long you've been reading this discussion list, but if you've
perused enough you'll know that it's a helpful community always at
the ready to provide tips, tricks, code, etc.
-boo :)
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