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Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by lobster_johnson »

sunchild wrote: post #73
durandal1 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sublime text is very clunky and has that very weird "UI app written in a scripting language feel" to it. I know that's not a value which is easy to quantify, but I think it's down to a slightly weird architecture and latency because of its heavy dependency on python.

I really hate ST2's handling of project-wide file system controls on the left. Renaming a file keeps the old buffer open and I've been caught a few times re-saving under the old name. I've yet to figure out how to open a project directory from the GUI, too. I always liked the file browser column in TM better.

The rename problem is a real ugly bug. Lots of votes on the userecho.com site, but nothing has been done with it yet.

> I've yet to figure out how to open a project directory from the GUI, too.

What's wrong with File -> Open Folder or Project -> Open Project?

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by lobster_johnson »

daniel_sim wrote: post #9
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.

To be fair, TM is pretty ugly, too. ST2 with the Soda theme looks much more modern than TM.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by st3fan »

I tried it out. But there is no wow-factor. When TextMate came out it was amazing. Specially because BBEdit was so much behind. Now there are (have been) many competitors that are awesome, look modern, etc. Meh.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by pilif »

gosub wrote: post #100
pilif wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

If I was willing to use vim (or emacs, nyellin) for my daily editing needs I wouldn't be comparing TextMate to Sublime and listing missing features in the latter :-)

Besides, I knew about the vi trick you referenced, but it often screws up something with the terminal, causing all sorts of issues. Admittedly I didn't try it again since moving to iTerm (I'm suspecting a terminal.app issue), mainly because I have a working solution (TextMate).

It's just that weren't it not for this sudo-feature, I would really prefer sublime (I bought both, by the way, in order to support their respective authors)

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by jdc0589 »

no cross platform support = no interest. If you only ever use a mac, textmate is awesome. However, having to use a different editor in every OS is just ridiculous. Thankfully Sublime Text 2 is around.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by guywithabike »

jbverschoor wrote: post #108
ddagradi wrote: post #85

> Full screen mode: This is mainly because we are hesitant to go Lion-only so we are holding back with “lionizing” TextMate till we feel confident we can fully drop backwards compatibility. That's not true. Adding full-screen support does not require breaking backwards compatibility: it's a quick check to see if the feature can be enabled.

"we are holding back" so you mean there's more than 1 person sitting doing nothing for over 2 years?

You're right. They completely re-wrote TextMate in the past couple months.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by bstar77 »

shadowfiend wrote: post #94
bstar77 wrote: 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.

Problem with vico is that it's based on textmate plugins. If it natively supported vi (and mvim) plugins, then I would have already purchased it. I never understood the decision to go that direction. Vico is gorgeous, though.

Re: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

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Post by coob »

frou_dh wrote: post #42
daniel_sim wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This user made theme should be the default on ST2 for Mac as far as I'm concerned. Cure for ST2 ugliness: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme

Design is not a theme.
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