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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 j_baker »

noarchy wrote: post #39
j_baker wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Especially when said editor costs only $55. That's nothing compared to the cost of a lot of other commercial editors.

There are also editors that do far more, for free. That's not to belittle TextMate users. I'm just saying that when it comes time to making decisions about spending money, it may be difficult to convince some managers to want to fork over the cash for something like this.

I agree with you, but considering how much you spend on developers in salary, benefits, and equipment, $55 is for all intents and purposes free.

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by Sizlak »

luckyland wrote: post #61
Sizlak wrote: post #32

TextMate is the BBEdit of OS X.

Try to open your project whose files sit on a remote directory with Textmate and tell me if this joke is still funny.

My point was that both seemed awesome at first, but then just stopped improving. And yeah, I still think the joke is funny.

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by luckyland »

Sizlak wrote: post #102
luckyland wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try to open your project whose files sit on a remote directory with Textmate and tell me if this joke is still funny.

My point was that both seemed awesome at first, but then just stopped improving. And yeah, I still think the joke is funny.

But BBEdit is an extremely complete tool.

Bares Bones isn't known for aggressive feature releases for any of their products, either.

In what ways do you feel BBEdit didn't mature?

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by colomon »

dasil003 wrote: post #22
packetslave wrote: post #15

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Definitely use the "Ack In Project" bundle instead of "Find in Project". It's like night and day.

Only works with 10.6 apparently which is causing my colleague problems. Also, if you set up the folder filters than Find in Project can be bearable, which is nice because Ackmate (name changed this year) doesn't do replace.

Ack in Project works fine in 10.5, I use it there every day...

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by colomon »

michael_scheibe wrote: post #64
packetslave wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely use the "Ack In Project" bundle instead of "Find in Project". It's like night and day.

The Ack in Project bundle has been deprecated by the creator in favor of the AckMate plugin. It has some major improvements over the bundle. Highly recommended. https://github.com/protocool/AckMate

Can you say more about this? I've been very happy with Ack in Project, and I'm loath to change such a big part of my working environment without some understanding if what I should expect to gain...

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by colomon »

pella wrote: post #78

Textmate clone ( Windows & Linux ) http://www.e-texteditor.com/

I've tried it twice now, and hated it both times. I was very excited about the prospect of a still-actively developed "Textmate" that would run on my other development machines. (I've got four active development machines, and only one of them is a Mac.)

In practice, though, it just felt wrong to me. It doesn't look as nice; I couldn't easily figure out keyboard / menu shortcuts for a number of my bread-and-butter Textmate activities; and I was unable to figure out how to manually install bundles.

Perhaps I just haven't given it enough time, but it always feels like it would be easier to just share my source directories so I can edit them from the Mac using Textmate...

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by jshen »

davidw wrote: post #65
jshen wrote: post #56

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I've tried most of them and they didn't really do what I wanted. I don't want to do all my git commands from my editor, but I want my editor to visualize important stuff for the files I'm looking at. In netbeans the gutter of the open file is color coded to show how the code your looking at is different from HEAD (or whatever).

You could probably get emacs to do that without major trouble. That's the beauty of it: you can make it do what you want, which is something you always end up wanting, because nothing behaves exactly like you think it ought to.

"You could probably get emacs to do that without major trouble."

Hehe, this is true and it's why I am an emacs user, but "without major trouble" means spending 30-50 hours of my life developing it from scratch. That's rather hard when one has a demanding job and two kids under 3 at home.

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by X-Istence »

tzs wrote: post #79
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.

I am using the only Mac in the office, we are using Qt for cross platform development and they pay a license for that. Being the only Mac user means I don't get to take advantage of all of the licenses that the Windows developers have access to through various Microsoft programs like BizSpark.

We are currently going through our B-round of funding, and hopefully after that it will be easier to ask for various pieces of software, for now I have decided in an effort to save on various different costs it is not worth pushing the effort.

Re: TextMate finally gets an update

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Post by X-Istence »

Timothee wrote: post #58
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.

It seemed to me that the Textmate license was actually allowing you to use your own license for home and work use. Actually, confirmed from the site: http://macromates.com/license_policy "A user is allowed to bring his personal license with him to work, should the company allow it, and use that." There you go, problem solved!

Awesome, didn't know about that!
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