Use a Single Editor Well
The editor should be an extension of your hand; make sure your editor is configurable, extensible, and programmable.
I’m starting a project in Ruby on Rails and I’ve found that most documentation, books, and webcasts use the TextMate editor available only for Macintosh computers. As a longtime user of IDM’s UltraEdit software I’ve configured this editor to work with highlighting similar to style of the themes for TextMate. Specifically, the idleFingers theme. I haven’t created an exact match, but it’s pretty close. I like this theme since it’s easy to see the different syntax elements, while remaining on the soft/natural side in terms of intensity.
Note that I’ve built this configuration and guide based on my current copy of UltraEdit, v11.20b. Newer or older versions will behave differently, but hopefully similarly enough that this guide is still useful.
Without further ado:
Instructions for making UltraEdit look similar to TextMate for editing Ruby/Ruby on Rails as seen in the Creating a weblog in 15 minutes with Rails 2 screencast which uses the idleFingers TextMate theme and the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font.
Theme: Based on idleFingers
You can find instructions for importing this file into UltraEdit from this forum post from a similar project for a different theme.
Note that this file is for UltrEdit versions prior to v15. With version 15+ color schemes are stored in the WordFiles.
This file assumes that Ruby is your 15th language in the WordFile (ie, /L15″Ruby” …). You should change the number in the first line to match your WordFile.
Font, and an alternative:
- Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (10pt, bold)
- Dina Programming Font (10pt regular)
Afer installing the font in Windows, in Ultra-Edit go to View -> Set Font
Ruby Wordfile:
- From IDM/UltraEdit website
- My customized Ruby wordfile with additional indentation keywords and removed highlighting of any word starting with a capital letter.
- Instructions for installing a wordfile on UltraEdit v15 or higher
- Instructions for installing a wordfile on UltraEdit prior to V15
Sample using the Dina font
Sample with BitStream font
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