11 September 2009
At first glance, Textmate can appear to be nothing more than a bog-standard code editor, lacking the more advanced features of an IDE. However, a quick look under the hood reveals how its relationship with UNIX command line tools has allowed it to become a supremely powerful editor.
There are a whole host of available commands and bundles, but what if you need to extend existing ones or create your own? I’ll cover some of the basics which will help you get started…
For this example, I’m going to perform a simple append to end-of-line (EOL) operation on selected text using sed.
