

The book is written in a conversational tone that occasionally borders on distracting (e.g., "The Ruby executor is quite clever.") but no more so than other Pragmatic Programmer books.īeginners and road warriors will find the book very handy, literally.
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Despite the 100+ page difference, the online manual is intended for the hardcore geek and covers much more detail with less hand-holding. The online manual clocks in at 97 very terse pages (print-previewed as-is in Internet Explorer) while the book is 193 pages.

The book and online manual are targeted at completely different audiences. I am not a professional developer by any means, so if I can make sense of a tool and follow a book or manual, newbies should have no trouble. I am relatively new to Ruby and Rails, but studied C and Java at University using Emacs and NetBeans. I received no compensation other than a copy of the book. I am reviewing TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac ("TPEFTM") by James Edward Gray II, published by The Pragmatic Programmers LLC, which I received from O'Reilly Media because I am the organizer of the Forest Park Ruby Meetup group. For example, the book briefly covers basic text editing, but provides in-depth information about basic operations (keyboard shortcuts, customizations, etc.) more advanced users will want to know and beginning users should know." Read below for the rest of OSXCPA's review.Įxcellent for the more complex scripting features of TextMate The blurb on the back of the book identifies the target audience as 'Programmers, web designers and anyone else who regularly needs to work with text files on Mac OSX.' After working with TextMate and reading through the book, the target audience is spot on. This book is a primer and reference for TextMate. OSXCPA writes "TextMate is a closed-source, GUI-based, extensible text editor that looks and behaves like a mashup of GNU Emacs ("Emacs") and NetBeans.
