Well, the answer is mostly a resounding yes. Update: There a new edition of this post - Setting Up Your Mac For Programming. Surely there must be a good reason why they’re loving the Mac platform too? Definitely, right? After all, you have heard that system administrators and programmers also love the Mac. But you know your Mac can do programming too. That’s what many people go to the Mac for. The fun stuff and the life stuff, if you know what I mean. If you like me amazed by all of those features, here is a video tutorial to show off some of the features in more detail.The Mac is well known for doing photos, graphics, movies, and music. Very easy to look up something without knowing where the feature is located in terms of going though lists of dropdown menus. This will give you access to all the features and functions Sublime Text offers, including a list of shortcuts for corresponding function. You can launch it by pressing “Control + Shift + P” Lastly but not least, the command palette bar. Depending on the language it gives you a list of all the key functions that are in the file, again, another very handy feature to have. You can press Control + R to launch this quick searching bar to find all the method or symbol or function that you have in your documents. Method Lookupįunction/Symbol/Method look up.

Who says auto complete can only be alive in IDE ? This awesome text editor automatically detects the language of your file, and it gives you a list of suggestions (autocomplete) as you type. Notice here, the tab I have a style sheet opened, but it’s showing a sneak peak of the index.php file. In Windows press, Control + P, to launch the file finder bar, from there it will quickly find and file as you type showing you a real time update and let’s you to sneak peak of what’s inside the file without actually opening it. And you can do that all with keyboard shortcuts. You can re-arrange your workspace, into grid views, or multi column views up to 4 columns. So why Sublime Text is so good ? Well, it got some very neat features you might like. You should check it out if you are looking for some feature rich text editor. Sublime Text is a cross platform text editor for Windows, Mac and Linux.Ĭurrently, the Sublime Text 2 is on beta release, and it’s a free download. IDE is not ideal for such, and a simple text editor isn’t quite enrich your development pace. If you ever need to do a lot text based programming for web related development then you will know what I’m talking about. For years, developer on Windows facing a lack of a well designed and feature rich text editor (like Textmate on Mac). Forget about Notepad++, or any other text editor that you use for Windows.

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