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Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

#91

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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.

You're definitely not alone. It's cross platform, so it's not quite at home on OS X, it just feels wrong somehow. Pity really.

Anything specific? I haven't noticed noticed anything very much amiss with Sublime. (It's as native feeling as Chrome, say, or indeed TextMate.)

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

#92
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Try Vico. Textmate bundles and vim editing.

I did (but admittedly not for long). It didn't have the same level of polish. Has this changed? I can already use TM bundles on Sublime Text, but it just felt more feature complete.

It's more polished now than it was. It's still in its nascent stages, but it's improving on a roughly monthly basis, in a definite excellent direction. The vi approach seems to be at its core, which is notable as new features are being implemented. And it's scriptable in Nu, which is pretty sweet and gives you access to all of Cocoa.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

#93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did (but admittedly not for long). It didn't have the same level of polish. Has this changed? I can already use TM bundles on Sublime Text, but it just felt more feature complete.

It's more polished now than it was. It's still in its nascent stages, but it's improving on a roughly monthly basis, in a definite excellent direction. The vi approach seems to be at its core, which is notable as new features are being implemented. And it's scriptable in Nu, which is pretty sweet and gives you access to all of Cocoa.

Thanks for the response. Will definitely have a second look, now that I have an idea of what to expect. Competition is definitely good in this space… especially now that the trend includes TextMate bundles & themes so it's not too hard to maintain a similar environment.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

#94
post #29

I moved to vim more out of boredom more than anything. Using vim turned into a game for me... always trying a more efficient way of doing something. Problem now is that all of the vim keybindings are etched into my head, and it goes way beyond the standard basic keybindings. It has to do with the way Vim chains commands. There's no vim-like editor that can do that except vim, gvim & mvim. For this reason alone, vim h…

I would recommend keeping an eye on vico. It's likely it doesn't do everything you're used to in vim, but there's been constant improvement in this regard over the past 2-3 months.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

#95
TextMate 1 was my first "programming" editor, one year ago I faced the truth and said to myself that v2.0 is not coming.(!!) I switched over to vim and I'm very happy. I now can use it very fast and I'm very productive. Yes, TextMate 2.0 is late and maybe all of those features are now all over other editors, but I'll definitely give it a try and I'll keep it installed on my computer for the old times' sake.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

#96

Out of curiosity, does anybody have any screenshots or something, just to get a feel of what this is like? I don't have a license, and don't want to buy one either.

There's not much to see, it's an editor, but here you go: http://i.imgur.com/ZyIP5.png

Blackboard theme and the font is DejaVu Sans Mono... I think TextMate 2 just uses the font I set in version 1.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

#98

Out of curiosity, does anybody have any screenshots or something, just to get a feel of what this is like? I don't have a license, and don't want to buy one either.

There's not much to see, it's an editor, but here you go: http://i.imgur.com/ZyIP5.png Blackboard theme and the font is DejaVu Sans Mono... I think TextMate 2 just uses the font I set in version 1.

Off-topic: I see in your screenshots that Dock icons of applications that are not started are on their side. How did you do this?

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

#99
Does anyone know how to adjust the line height?

In 1.x I could do

    defaults write com.macromates.TextMate OakLineHeightDelta n
but 2.x doesn't respect that (or com.macromates.Avian OakLineHeightDelta).

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

#100
post #90

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.

There is one feature in TextMate that's not in Sublime which I really love to the point, where it's an absolute requirement for me: when I edit a file in TextMate and my account lacks permission for saving the file, TM would allow me to sudo right from the GUI in order to still save. This is much better than seeing that I can't save, copy the whole file to the clipboard, reopen it with 'sudo vim' and then pasting it…

Would something like this work for you?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/95072/what-are-your-favor...

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