You may call me crazy (you can really! Go ahead!), but for the last few days, I’ve been really obsessed over this Mac OS X based text editor called Textmate. I commented to a friend that this application almost makes me want to switch to the Mac OS platform. This text editor is almost perfect and I spent too much time trying to find a Windows alternative (I failed). However, I did come across some close potential windows applications that could probably provide the functionality of Textmate but not all of the eye candy (The eye candy is impossible on Windows since they are Mac OS X based). And I’ve been really considering modifying an existing open source application to mimic Textmate. Instead of working on my physics problem set today or studying for my Chem 14 midterm, I somehow ended up outlining all the steps necessary to modify an open source text editor to function like textmate. In fact, it should only take about a week of development time or so…
The whole point of this post was to make myself stop working on this and to work on more important things like a really difficult midterm and a difficult problem set all due within two days…