Ahem.. It makes me wonder as to why I always end up blogging my obsession with Mac software(s). Come to think of it, it might be because they’re a-w-e-s-o-m-e! I might be exaggerating a bit here, but when I look at some of the Mac apps, I end up immediately falling in love with them.
The same happened with TextMate. I never really understood why there was so much hype behind TextMate being the “only” tool needed by developers while developing on the Apple platform, and, I might never get a chance to figure that out. But, something wasn’t right. I wasn’t ready to accept defeat and drown deep into the misery all over again. Enter InType.
This gem of an app gave me some relief from my must-try-textmate-disease. A little background on InType
> Still in Alpha > Neither OpenSource nor Free > Have no clue when it’ll be released > Probably will be priced in the premium
None of them makes me happy, but, this might be one of those rare scenarios in my life when I’m not cribbing about something. As a matter of fact, I don’t want them to give it out for FREE. I’m trying out the alpha release (which is free), and I’ve fallen in love with it. EditPlus and Eclipse are history and InType has taken their place to be my Python+Ruby+PHP+Nant+Text+SQL+XML Editor. Gosh, an alpha app has been able to kick out my favorite text editor and “one” of my favorite IDE. Not something that happens very often!
InType supports Bundles, similar to TextMate Bundles, and the developers of InType claim to support some of TextMate Bundles too, although I couldn’t get it to use on though. It has excellent syntax highlighting, rendering, minimalistic GUI and shortcuts to perform nearly every operation that one might need.
Here’s a screenshot of InType as a PHP editor
InType
All in all, it’s been a nice journey so far with InType and am awaiting its official release.
Peace!
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did you say php – I have to check this out.