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allan oteyza
120 Pointstext mate?
is text mate the same thing as text editor app, on an apple computer?
3 Answers
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 PointsAllan,
Textmate isn't necessary--BUT is a great code editor for Mac. It does much more than an ordinary text editor--mainly, it offers all kinds of features that help you code better and faster. It's worthwhile to use an editor like it (or, say, Sublime Text).
Binary Soul
4,592 PointsTextMate have Syntax Highlighting, Code completition, Autocomplete, Filebrowsing, and lots of coder stuff.
I dont think that a basic text-editor has that
allan oteyza
120 Pointsi was just trying to complete the beginning course for introduction to programming. is it a necessary app. I just downloaded the demo. Im just a beginner in this field..
Binary Soul
4,592 Pointsnot "necessary" but it helps you to find errors like typos much faster because of the textcolor. You also may want to read this
allan oteyza
120 Pointsthank you so much that link really answered a lot of my questions.