Comments on: TextMate: The Missing Editor for Mac OS X

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By: Chad Humphries

Chad Humphries — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:46:01 +0000

TextMate 2 has a “Duke Nukem Foreever” release schedule per the developer. Don’t expect it soon.

By: Joe Turner

Joe Turner — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:07:13 +0000

So true!

By: Bruce A

Bruce A — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:31:20 +0000

Well…thinking of TextMate as just a text editor is a little like thinking of a Porsche 911 Turbo as just a car.

By: eric

eric — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:09:47 +0000

sixty two bucks seems a little much for a text editor.

By: Nasim

Nasim — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:36:55 +0000

Yup, auto-complete FTW.

By: Joe Turner

Joe Turner — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:00:10 +0000

Auto complete in the new Xcode is very nice, so it will be awesome when TextMate has it!

By: Greg Healy

Greg Healy — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:59:28 +0000

TextMate 2 is due out soon, Ibrahim, so I’m sure that auto-complete will be a feature.

By: Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:19:00 +0000

It doesn’t have auto-complete like skEdit/dreamweaver or I’d buy it right away.

Auto-complete is on their suggestion list since atleast 6 months, but they’re doing nothing about it, not sure why.

By: Me

Me — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:18:33 +0000

Agree with David. Smultron… Or Coda for more heavy usage.

By: David

David — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:05:01 +0000

Smultron? Free.

By: Derek Fons

Derek Fons — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:43:06 +0000

@Mason: You can use the dock send feature with Transmit and then uploading files is just a shortcut key. I wish it had its own FTP though. Coda also is nice to keep track of which files to upload.

There is a preview built into TextMate, but it is a separate Window, which is ok if you have a large monitor or multiple screens. The preview is also live updates while you work.

By: Mason

Mason — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:37:03 +0000

Personally for CSS, HTML and PHP, I like using Coda. I like how you can customize TextMate so much, but still, it doesn’t have a Preview feature or an FTP feature.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:09:30 +0000

TextMate is good, especially its syntax coloring and scope features. But after buying a license and using it on several projects, I’ve switched back to BBEdit. As good as TextMate is, I still think BBEdit is better in many ways. It may be more expensive, but I practically live in my text editor, so the price was worth it for me.

By: Brendon

Brendon — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:47:34 +0000

have to agree with Jean-Christophe Helary, macvim has a lot of great “mac” features plus you’ve got the power of vim and a ton of vim scripts that make coding a lot easier. But the learning curve is steep, but well worth it.

By: Derek Fons

Derek Fons — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:59:25 +0000

@Jean-Christophe Helary: Like Nasim said above, you don’t have to learn a bunch of commands to get going.

Any one you introduce to TextMate can start using it right away and then slowly dip in to the wide array of features. Some one can understand how to use it right away. It’s a super easy to use, but has a lot to utilize and expand on.

I know VIM and Emacs have a lot to offer, but its not that easy to jump into, and they are not as pretty as TextMate, hehe.

By: Jean-Christophe Helary

Jean-Christophe Helary — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:37:12 +0000

Aquamacs anyone ? Vim ? Why reinvent the wheel in different colors when everything is already here.

http://aquamacs.org/

http://macvim.org/OSX/index.php

By: Derek Fons

Derek Fons — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:32:55 +0000

Any one have any news on when TextMate 2 should be coming out? I love the current version, but I am dying to see how they make it better.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:45:52 +0000

@Jimmy: Don’t you have anything better to do?

How is it you get ‘disappointed’ with an article that has absolutely no bearing on your life other than to make a decision as whether you’ll read it?

May I suggest you… ahem… get a life?

By: Joe Turner

Joe Turner — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:12:27 +0000

@Jimmy: There was a two paragraph, very light article a year ago. This isn’t exactly the same thing…

By: Jimmy Dean

Jimmy Dean — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:21:25 +0000

A textmate article has already been published by MacApper. It’d be nice to see contributers search the site before they started writing. This is disappointing.

By: Nasim

Nasim — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:02:24 +0000

The thing I like about textmate is unlike vim or emacs it does not force you to memorize the commands to edit text files. It’s so simple to use!

By: wpGuy

wpGuy — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:47:56 +0000

I’ve been using TextMate since more than a year for website coding, and it rocks!