TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by fredleblanc » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:35 PM UTC

TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha
blog.macromates.com

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by deweller » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:41 PM UTC

Split views are coming. From the post:

"Split views: Yes, I actually had this on the alpha milestone, I’m not overly excited about this feature myself, but I know it’s a very common request, so eventually it should find its way into the application."

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by c4urself » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:48 PM UTC

Is there a good story behind the logo change and choice, or was it just time for something new?

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by peregrine » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

In the mean time Sublime Text 2 has all of the Alpha features as well as cross platform support and support for TextMate bundles. You should really give it a shot if you haven't.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

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Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by c4urself » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

List of changes: http://macromates.com/changes

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by jarin » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:51 PM UTC

A lot of people I know switched from TextMate to vim because of the lengthy delay. After using vim for a couple of years now, it would be very hard to go back to TextMate.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by durandal1 » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

Just tried it out and it's actually pretty awesome, especially considering it's an alpha. A real 2.0 in every sense. Tried Sublime Text 2 for a while but while the spec looks good on paper it feels clunky to use, even compared against TM 1.5. And with 2.0 it's completely blown out of the water.

And for you vim/emacs promoters always jumping out of the dark: I use vim every day for a lot of tasks, and have done so for the last 15 years, but for coding and quick navigation of large source bases Textmate wins hand down.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by daniel_sim » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

peregrine wrote: post #4

In the mean time Sublime Text 2 has all of the Alpha features as well as cross platform support and support for TextMate bundles. You should really give it a shot if you haven't.

I'm sure I'm not the only textmate user who finds Sublime Text hideous. I'd sooner bite the bullet on vim if I'm going the ugly route.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by jdludlow » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

deweller wrote: post #2

Split views are coming. From the post: "Split views: Yes, I actually had this on the alpha milestone, I’m not overly excited about this feature myself, but I know it’s a very common request, so eventually it should find its way into the application."

(I'm not a desktop app developer, so maybe I'm way off base here.)

There's the obvious observer problem where you have two views of the same buffer and changing the text in one automatically updates the other. Isn't that harder to tack on later than to design into the app from the beginning?