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Posted by Marley McCarthy
Marley McCarthy
67 Points

Hi, does someone have an answer for my question?

Hello, I just started taking lessons today, starting with the "getting started" part of your courses. Well, on the second video, the man in the video was using a program called Textmate on a Mac to type up a document, and he wanted me to do the same. Well, i'm on windows 7, and apparently textmate is only for osx. What can I do? Is that set of videos for mac only?

Thanks

3 Answers

Preston Farr
Preston Farr
3,379 Points
Preston Farr
Preston Farr
3,379 Points

A good alternative I love to use is Sublime Text for the windows platform for a generic use text editor/extensible IDE. Not sure if its required to use textmate on that course but if your looking for a good text editor Sublime Text or Notepad++ will serve you well.

Marley McCarthy
Marley McCarthy
67 Points

Alright, i'll see if Sublime Text works. Thank you.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Note Sublime Text is $70 (with a free trial that is not time-based) while notepad++ is Free

Preston Farr
Preston Farr
3,379 Points
Preston Farr
Preston Farr
3,379 Points

No problemo~ Its a great lightweight IDE for Ruby, PHP, HTML, etc.