Be Patient For TextMate 2

http://cultofmac.com/be-patient-for-textmate-2/5487

by KevinBongart • 18 years ago

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ropiku• 18 years ago

There's also http://macrabbit.com/espresso/ with is quite expandable and already starting to build a small community. It's at early beginning but it looks interesting.

KevinBongart• 18 years ago

Expresso looks great!

However, it's more web development oriented, just like Coda.

hbien• 18 years ago

Honestly, I'm so happy with TextMate v1 already that I don't really care how long TextMate v2.0 takes to get out.

tdavis2• 18 years ago

You wouldn't be saying that if you did a lot of editing via network shares...

TM is awesome; I used it for years. However, it's quite ridiculous that at least as far back as 2006 folks were being led to believe TM 2 was "coming soon." At least the developer has now stated it'll be released "god knows when," but for commercial software I'm not sure if that's any better.

ionfish• 18 years ago

I suspect that people were being led to believe in 2006 that it was "coming soon" because Allan Odgaard really did believe at that point that it was coming soon.

petercooper• 18 years ago

Agreed. Despite its age, TextMate is still a cutting edge text editor, primarily because almost no-one has tried to innovate in the space lately (Coda excepted).

coliveira• 18 years ago

Maybe TM users should think about creating an open source version. I personally tried TM and liked the general feeling of it, but I won't commit to an editor that (1) is not open source (2) is not multi-platform (3) is not vim :-)

siim• 18 years ago

http://grigio.org/textmate_gedit_few_steps

Niten• 18 years ago

Emacs can do most of the things that TextMate is loved for, and then some:

http://platypope.org/yada/emacs-demo/

ryan-allen• 18 years ago

Some people seem to be investigating Emacs, from the world that had Textmate become popular! http://nubyonrails.com/articles/emacs-emacs

I've personally jumped to Vim. Mostly beacuse I do some sysadmin and now it's much less annoying editing config files, but also so I can jump from OS X and still be able to work.

catch23• 18 years ago

emacs isn't too bad, but I gave up on the multi-major-mode stuff a few years back, it just doesn't compare to TextMate. TextMate still seems to do very well if the one file contains several languages (like an html template), but emacs under MMM doesn't fare well at all.

dmix• 18 years ago

Textmate is one of the few applications where I am not eagerly anticipating the next release. The current version has everything I need.

rufo• 18 years ago

I'm only eagerly awaiting it because I'm curious to see what additional awesomeness can be added in.

(Yes, yes, vim, emacs, ed, etc...)

llimllib• 18 years ago

How does anyone edit code in an editor that can't split a window? I don't think I'll ever get that.

fizx• 18 years ago

He really really really needs to fix the project-wide search and replace that hangs textmate until it finishes.

whalesalad• 18 years ago

I'm running bleeding edge and project-wide search is fast as shit now.. been that way for quite some while actually. I do remember those pains, however.

You can also look into a bundle called "search with awk" or something which uses awk instead and is much faster (cmd + shift + a, instead of cmd + shift + f).

bradgessler• 18 years ago

Project-wide search is still a slow piece of crap on edge...

I'd like to see a version of TM released that fixed this problem and used either awk or grep.

Be Patient For TextMate 2

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