Editing in OS X

I am an heavy VIM fan for console editing, but I never liked it much in its GUI incarnations (gvim, cream and friends); probably because when I work in a desktop environment (be it OS X, Windows or Gnome), I am always surrounded by emacs like text widgets.

It would be wonderful to have modal editing everywhere (and it’s quite possible using plugins for Cocoa, Eclipse and even Visual Studio), but it’s not practical nor easy to enforce, so after powering up the MacBook I immediately fired up Safari to look out for a slick OS X native editor.

I’m currently evaluating Textmate, and as a newbie I’m already loving it; in fact, I’ve just written and tagged this very post using its integrated blogging features More on the next posts.