Ad: SubEthaEdit on macZOT · 198 words posted 04/25/2006 07:05 PM
macZOT.com is currently promoting SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys. According to the site, macZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software. It’s a clever promotion: for each blogger who posts a link back to the promotion, the price of SubEthaEdit drops by 5¢. I feel a little tool-ish for participating, but only mildly so: I actually use and like the software.
SubEthaEdit’s collaborative text editing gets all the attention, but even without the rendevouz-based features it would be a light, tight, most-of-what-you-need-but-not-a-bit-more scripting tool. My favorite features:
- The Terminal tool. When you want to edit hidden config files from the command line but want to do so with a GUI, just type
see [filename]in terminal. TextMate also supports this feature; I couldn’t live without it. - Block Editing. Select and edit multiple lines at once. Best understood by watching SubEthaEdit’s tutorial movie (QuickTime).
Some day, I’d like to see the best features of TextMate and SubEthaEdit melded into one light and perfect Mac-centric code editor, but until that day SubEthaEdit is definitely worth a look. As I post this entry, it looks like the price is down to $7.60, from $35.
See BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com for details on the promotion.
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