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Re: TextMate 2

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Post by frou_dh »

dextorious wrote: post #49
chubs wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering similarly: Dev work on ST2 seems to have stopped altogether. Which is a pity, because it really was shaping up to be a winner. But there are still plenty of features missing. Now i'm using chocolatapp, which seems to be moving along briskly and now has a better feature set.

"""Dev work on ST2 seems to have stopped altogether.""" Yeah, no new beta release for a whole of 40 days! """Now i'm using chocolatapp, which seems to be moving along briskly and now has a better feature set.""" The only reason it "moves along briskly" is because it started with very little. And better than ST2? Currently is somewhere south of TextMate 1.x

Agreed. My observation about Sublime2 was a positive one. Taking a break from releasing a new dev build every day is not neglect.

Re: TextMate 2

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Post by frou_dh »

dextorious wrote: post #47
frou_dh wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Sublime2 dev builds have slowed as of late so I was wondering if the author was prepping for final release to steal TM2's thunder.

What thunder? I don't see much in the alpha release -- and the quality smells of another 1-2 years of waiting...

Press and mindshare thunder!

Re: TextMate 2

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Post by bad_user »

bigfudge wrote: post #58

Loving the new proportional-fonts-for-headings in Markdown. It seems so obvious in retrospect, but it's the one thing that makes writing longer document painful for me in any text editor.

This is already available in Emacs. The Markdown mode is not configured by default to display proportional fonts for headings, however configuring it is easy.

Re: TextMate 2

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Post by cmwright »

hornbaker wrote: post #51

Still no mention of chunked Undos. Undo'ing character by character is why I gave up on TextMate years ago, but I suppose I should be thankful since it helped me find Vim.

It has definitely improved from char-by-char undo. It's at least doing word by word and seems to grab bigger chunks in some instances

Re: TextMate 2

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Post by jaxn »

brcrth wrote: post #10

Hm.. I wonder how many people will switch back to TextMate 2 from Vim/Emacs/Sublime Text?

I gave up and went with Sublime when I bought a new machine a couple of months ago. I won't be switching to TM2

Re: TextMate 2

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Post by Derbasti »

brcrth wrote: post #10

Hm.. I wonder how many people will switch back to TextMate 2 from Vim/Emacs/Sublime Text?

Funny though, how many people got hooked on Textmate and moved on to Emacs or Vim in the last few years.

I certainly did. After tasting Emacs or Vim, there is no going back.

I wonder whether we would have stayed if Textmate had been updated earlier. I also wonder whether this new spring in text editors might be in part a reaction to Textmates hibernation. Maybe if it had been updated earlier, there would be no Sublime Text, no Kod, no Chocolat and no Vico?

Re: TextMate 2

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Post by rayiner »

mgrouchy wrote: post #16
brcrth wrote: post #10

Hm.. I wonder how many people will switch back to TextMate 2 from Vim/Emacs/Sublime Text?

I imagine all three are superior to TM2, especially Vim and Emacs, after you bust through the learning curve no point ever going back.

Programming on a laptop dramatically changes the cost/benefit of keyboard-heavy interfaces, IMHO. E.g. it's almost as quick for me to flick the cursor to switch tabs as it is to type a chorded keyboard shortcut to switch buffers, especially factoring in the ability to look and think about what buffer I want before initiating any movement.

Re: TextMate 2

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Post by nestlequ1k »

biot wrote: post #48
starnix17 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what's it worth, this was posted on a publicly accessible TextMate mailing list. Not sure why he would think it wouldn't leak out.

Common courtesy? I know it's rather uncommon these days...

Common courtesy is typically lost after 6 years of neglect.
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