Effortless Productivity
Take control and make writing fun and fast again. Snippets automate
tedious and repetitive typing, saving you time and effort. Powerful
bundle commands transforms the text to your needs. By letting the
computer do the manual work, you get the freedom to concentrate on your
writing.
UNIX at your fingertips
You can leverage the full power of a unix scripting environment, right
from within e. Close integration with cygwin gives you access to the
full range of UNIX shell tools and lets you extend e with your choice of
languages like Ruby, Perl, Python and more. If you have any task that
could benefit from automation, you can be sure that e is up to it.
Customization
Make the editor fit the way you work. Everything in e from the syntax
highlighting themes to bundle commands and keyboard shortcuts can be
customized.
Community
TextMate is the award winning editor for MacOS X, that has
revolutionized the way text editors work. By supporting TextMate
bundles, e makes you part of a huge and vibrant community. Whatever task or language
you need to work with, there is a good chance that someone has already
made a bundle with all the needed adaptations.
Personal Revision Control
Most people have tried saving a document under all kind of "creative" names to keep track of old revisions. In e you can write and revise without worrying about losing your prior work.
You can commit regular milestones of your documents (with comments and labels), and track your progress with the combined timeline/graph in the History view.