LabRatz

Decisions, decisions, decisions... I'm about to embark on another journey career-wise. I drank the kool-aid with extra strength since starting rails. It was the first time I've ever started programming and it was only natural that I'd buy a mac to go with the experience. I'm honestly glad I did and can't imagine using a Windows machine by choice even if it's just for the eye candy. It's also made me more familiar with UNIX than I ever would have aside from deployment crashing in flames. Unfortunately, not all job opportunities come with the chance to work with a mac and suddenly I was faced with not having my editor of choice: TextMate. For some reason I always felt limited on TextMate. There was just something about the navigation and editing that made things feel a bit clumsy for me. I have a really bad short-term memory and I usually like referencing several files while coding. I also felt like I needed more powerful navigation with files. Again, I just didn't feel natural with the key bindings. So, I finally switched to Vim or shall I say I'm still in the process. I've managed to find most of the stuff I found useful in TextMate like completion shortcuts and such. Of course, the fact that I decided to upgrade to Leopard only days before switching to Vim made my life a living hell this whole week but that's another story. Still, can TextMate do this: