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I can't speak for other communities, but all of the developers I who work with Ruby use TextMate. It may not be the majority, but the Ruby (and Rails) audience

I can't speak for other communities, but all of the developers I who work with Ruby use TextMate. It may not be the majority, but the Ruby (and Rails) audience is certainly not "extremely small." A clean, extensible editor like TextMate that gets out of your way is all you really need when you're working with tools that don't require an IDE. I think the main reason we haven't seen a major update yet is that so many people are happy with the current TextMate and are still willing to pay for it. I don't think we'll see a major upgrade until people start voting with their (lack of) dollars, rather than just complaining on forums.

tres 16y ago
This is interesting because it was NetBeans' Ruby and Rails support that led me to try it out in the first place. I could take this further, but it's not really germane; I think I wasn't very tactful in expressing my idea in my original post; the response is quite understandable. I'm not trying to state that TextMate is the wrong editor, or that there aren't a bunch of people who love it. I just personally think that it occupies a space between an IDE and a editor where a relatively(!) small audience exists.
- weaksauce 16y ago
  I am going to have to disagree with you here. I love a good IDE and wish that everything that I did had code completion/intellisense. The thing that Textmate does well is that it is lightweight like a text editor but very extensible for most things. What? you want code completion? well then hack up a ruby script and add it as a bundle. The thing that it really lacks is a decent lexer/parser. regular expressions are not good enough for the coloring and syntactic awareness that is needed for a tween text-editor/ide in my opinion.