Ha, looks like a pattern: my first was TextMate. It didn't put up as much of a fight, though -- symbols weren't stripped, there was one named "is_registered", a

Ha, looks like a pattern: my first was TextMate. It didn't put up as much of a fight, though -- symbols weren't stripped, there was one named "is_registered", and it worked exactly like you might expect. That didn't stop me from feeling immensely pleased with myself, of course. I too bought a license when I entered industry and the asking price went from 20 hours of yardwork to 2 hours of doing what TextMate had helped me learn to love. These days I mostly use Jetbrains and Sublime, but I'll never forget how easy and powerful TextMate templates were. Two steps forward, one step back.