{"id":213,"date":"2012-01-08T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T20:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2012-01-08T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T20:32:22","slug":"the-best-code-editor-on-mac-textmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"The best code editor on Mac &#8211; Textmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My transition to a Mac developer was a bit tough. My biggest lament was giving up FlashDevlop on Windows, my favorite code editor for Actionscript and its counterpart for Unity, UnityDevelop.<\/p>\n<p>This didn&#8217;t affect me too much until I started my iOS game in Corona SDK, using Lua, and was coding daily. I was using Xcode somewhat happily until an Xcode update disable support for Lua (Thanks Apple!) which left me code editor-less.<\/p>\n<p>I tried about every editor and Lua package I can find and settled on <a title=\"Textmate\" href=\"http:\/\/macromates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Textmate<\/a>. While many of the options in Textmate can be a bit difficult to find, it does everything I want it to: projects, smart code completion, that takes into account my defined variables, TODO lists, code snippets, method browser and bookmarks.<\/p>\n<p>I have even jumped on a couple other recommended editors during my development and none of them stand up to Textmate.<\/p>\n<p>So if you are an Actionscript developer making the jump to Corona SDK, buy Textmate, read a few of the docs and I think you will be happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My transition to a Mac developer was a bit tough. My biggest lament was giving up FlashDevlop on Windows, my favorite code editor for Actionscript and its counterpart for Unity, UnityDevelop. This didn&#8217;t affect me too much until I started my iOS game in Corona SDK, using Lua, and was coding daily. I was using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bulletpattern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}