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Well, since TextMate 2 still hasn't come out yet, and this seems to appeal to a very similar aesthetic, I could see this taking over that market. I'm definitel

Well, since TextMate 2 still hasn't come out yet, and this seems to appeal to a very similar aesthetic, I could see this taking over that market. I'm definitely very interested to try it out.

leif 15y ago
what do you use now, and why?
Cushman 15y ago
Don't lie— we're all gonna buy TextMate 2 anyway.
- exDM69 15y ago
  Yeah but the game here is about TextMate 3 vs. Chocolat 2
- frou_dh 15y ago
  TextMate 2 will be a free upgrade
  - sxtxixtxcxh 15y ago
    i fear that might not be the case if/when it ever comes out. i have a sinking feeling textmate 2 will end up as a mac store only app, and there's no way to provide free licenses to previous owners of non-mac store licenses.
    - frou_dh 15y ago
      If he is interested in putting it on the App Store, I doubt such an established developer would sweat maintaining a parallel standard version. Although the free upgrade promise is/was rash, I think it's too late to go back on it.
      - Cushman 15y ago
        Probably— although I just googled 'textmate 2 free upgrade' and the top hit is a blog post from 2006 titled "[TextMate] 2.0 Will Require Leopard". It's possible he might just be able to walk that one back a little.
  - sxtxixtxcxh 15y ago
    i fear that might not be the case if/when it ever comes out. i have a sinking feeling textmate 2 will end up as a mac store only app, and there's no way to provide free licenses to previous owners of non-mac store licenses.
- generalk 15y ago
  If it really does end up being a free upgrade I'll download it and give it a shot, but Textmate really soured me on paying for a closed-source editor. TextMate was the best editor I'd ever seen on a computer lab Mac, and when I finally bought my own one of the first things I bought was a TM license. Now there's been two years and three major Mac OS X revisions with almost no real news or updates except an id Software style "working on it." In the interim I've become proficient with both vim and emacs, preferring console vim + tmux for now. A new editor would be hard-pressed to win me away from that, especially if they're asking for money.

Well, since TextMate 2 still hasn't come out yet, and this seems to appeal to a very similar aesthetic, I could see this taking over that market. I'm definitely very interested to try it out.

leif 15y ago

what do you use now, and why?

Cushman 15y ago

Don't lie— we're all gonna buy TextMate 2 anyway.

exDM69 15y ago
Yeah but the game here is about TextMate 3 vs. Chocolat 2
frou_dh 15y ago
TextMate 2 will be a free upgrade
- sxtxixtxcxh 15y ago
  i fear that might not be the case if/when it ever comes out. i have a sinking feeling textmate 2 will end up as a mac store only app, and there's no way to provide free licenses to previous owners of non-mac store licenses.
  - frou_dh 15y ago
    If he is interested in putting it on the App Store, I doubt such an established developer would sweat maintaining a parallel standard version. Although the free upgrade promise is/was rash, I think it's too late to go back on it.
    - Cushman 15y ago
      Probably— although I just googled 'textmate 2 free upgrade' and the top hit is a blog post from 2006 titled "[TextMate] 2.0 Will Require Leopard". It's possible he might just be able to walk that one back a little.
- sxtxixtxcxh 15y ago
  i fear that might not be the case if/when it ever comes out. i have a sinking feeling textmate 2 will end up as a mac store only app, and there's no way to provide free licenses to previous owners of non-mac store licenses.
generalk 15y ago
If it really does end up being a free upgrade I'll download it and give it a shot, but Textmate really soured me on paying for a closed-source editor. TextMate was the best editor I'd ever seen on a computer lab Mac, and when I finally bought my own one of the first things I bought was a TM license. Now there's been two years and three major Mac OS X revisions with almost no real news or updates except an id Software style "working on it." In the interim I've become proficient with both vim and emacs, preferring console vim + tmux for now. A new editor would be hard-pressed to win me away from that, especially if they're asking for money.