It provides support, through bundles, to over 150 programming languages (C/C++, Fortran, Python, Perl, Ruby, LaTeX, HTML, …) and tools (subversion, diff, mercurial, …). If any text editor can be compared to a swiss army knife, it is TextMate. Sublime will cost your grant (or your advisor’s grant) $70 USD. Check out these tutorials to see some of the more advanced features in action. Many packages are available for both LaTeX and Python (but maybe not IDL, as far as I can tell). Update (by Kelle): New text editor on the block is Sublime Text and it looks just as powerful as TextMate, but more so. Choosing a good text editor is just as important as having a good chair to sit on, and can have a big impact on productivity! In this post, I will go over a few of the best text/code editors out there for MacOS X. One of the things we spend the most time doing as astronomers is writing text and/or code, whether to develop a pipeline to reduce/plot data, write papers/proposals, or write simulation codes.
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