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Screwdriver Narrowness Considered Harmful
Merlin Also | Oct 26 2005
Something I actually think about a lot just popped out in an email to an internet acquaintance who makes Mac software Quote: One thing to know about me (and probably a surprisingly large number of your customers and potential customers): there's very little mutual exclusivity in my software world. For example, I use TextEdit, Vim, and TextMate pretty much every day and for completely different things. To me it's like having several screwdrivers. I could be that guy who insists there's only One True and Good Screwdriver, but I prefer to keep them all handy and just grab the one I need for the job. Does that make any sense? I mean I hear these territorial pissing matches on `foo tool` vs. `bar tool`, and how the fate of the world turns on making the right decision one time, and then becoming some kind of viral evangelist. Meh. There's stuff like Quicksilver and OS X in general where you inherently have to choose a platform. But what about text editors, graphics apps--jeez, even _notebooks_? Am I the only one who employs a stable of several different tools for a certain kind of task? Esp. where one is clearly better at one portion of the task than the others? How about you? 23 Comments
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 I go back and forth...Submitted by awhite on October 27, 2005 - 8:38am.
I go back and forth between OpenOffice Write and AbiWord for word processing. AbiWord, in its full screen view, totally gets out of your way and just lets you write. I find OpenOffice better for the finaggling that you do before you shoot stuff off to a client. I also use Homesite, Nano, Notepad++, and StyleMaster for CSS editing, and all of the above save StyleMaster for editing all other web source files. Nano I like in the terminal, because I'm a lamer who can't remember vi commands. The other stuff, I go back and forth when it just feels right. Somehow it feels more natural to edit large key files in NP++ than in Homesite, for example. Plus, the regex isn't broken. a. » POSTED IN:
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