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TextMate finally gets an update

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Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by petercooper »

angrycoder wrote: post #68

It seems to me that the author of TextMate is in a rather interesting position. he has created an editor with a cult like following that he has neither the time, manpower, or interest in updating. I am sure that version 2 will be completed at some point, but at what cost to his sanity? Imagine for a moment if he just gave up and released the source for free. Hundreds of itchy fingers across the net dig into the sourc…

I want some of what you're drinking ;-)

Seriously though, I think the picture you paint would work out very well for him, but judging from bits and pieces I've read over the years, I suspect the Textmate code base is not particularly well structured and that he might even be a little embarrassed for others to see the code (I'm just guessing based on scraps, but I think most of us have been there).

It's clear he's made a few million euros from Textmate and I've read that he has a few pet projects he enjoys working on (for some reason I think I saw DHH say this). Perhaps he doesn't want that fame or the big bucks. I could certainly survive full time with a few million in capital and a residue of sales each month.. (even if he sells a mere 100 copies a month now, that nets far more than the median European salary).

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

5teev wrote: post #63

In spite of all the cool features, this update suffers from the same issue that drove me away the last time I tried Textmate: single-character undo. I can understand why this would appeal to some users, but most other text editors undo in bigger chunks, something I've come to expect and prefer. My original feeling about Textmate overall remains about the same. It probably appeals to recent OSX converts--it's a giant…

Interesting: for me this is a feature that I happen to appreciate a lot, not an issue.

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by jokull »

meric wrote: post #74

Might be a good place to mention another Mac OS X editor. http://macrabbit.com/espresso/ Disclaimer: I also wrote a clojure highlight/indent extension for it. https://github.com/meric/clojure

The espresso cup illustration is delicious! Looking forward to giving this a try. Mostly Python web development, so don't know how helpful some of these features are.

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by meric »

jokull wrote: post #75
meric wrote: post #74

Might be a good place to mention another Mac OS X editor. http://macrabbit.com/espresso/ Disclaimer: I also wrote a clojure highlight/indent extension for it. https://github.com/meric/clojure

The espresso cup illustration is delicious! Looking forward to giving this a try. Mostly Python web development, so don't know how helpful some of these features are.

There's an extension for that. :) You can write new extensions with python or objective-c, too. Although if you just want to define syntax highlighting you only need to use XML.

Here are a list of extensions made by third parties: http://fileability.net/coffee/index.php

P.S I use expresso for python web development, too.

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by bad_user »

gaoshan wrote: post #31

The market must be pretty small for Mac native text editors (and they must be difficult to implement on a grand scale). Otherwise some company would have walked into the gaping void that has been the delay to release TextMate 2.0 and released something by now. The door has been wide open for some time but no one is able or willing to step through it. Oh well, helps explain the Vim goldrush of the past few months.

I have every feature I wish from Textmate in Emacs, and more, like debugger integration and on-the-fly code checking / compiling with stuff like Pylint.

Even on OS X, I'm still using AquaMacs.

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by tzs »

X-Istence wrote: post #3

TextMate is my favourite editor on the Mac, only recently have I been using MacVim on my work computer since as a startup they are unable to purchase a license for TextMate. Honestly though, there are some things in MacVim I am now starting to miss in TextMate.

A startup that is unable to purchase a TextMate license is underfunded to the point that it is probably not smart to work for them.
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