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I moved to TextMate. I can't remember why. Is either of them better than the other these days? I feel like TextMate has been slightly abandoned.
by justinator 3y ago
I moved to TextMate. I can't remember why. Is either of them better than the other these days? I feel like TextMate has been slightly abandoned.
- Skeime 3y agoYeah, TextMate was great. I think it was the very intuitive way in which you could quickly extend it. Find yourself typing this thing over and over? Just create a snippet, the interface is just very few clicks away. Need a bit more power? Turn it into a command, and use whatever scripting language you’re comfortable with. Want to change the color scheme? Here is a nice declarative way to select precisely the syntax elements you want. (I think part of this was that they had a bunch of short videos on their site showing you how to do this, and then a well-written documentation to accompany it for the details.) Sadly, with TextMate 2.0, the interface for these things got quite a bit clunkier, and then I left. (I also discovered my preference for modal editing.)
- kergonath 3y agoI still use TextMate. I don’t know whether development has slowed or stopped, but I haven’t had any issue recently. I find it less clunky and nicer than Sublime Text, which is my second choice and my escape route the day TextMate dies. It’d be a pain to convert all those bundles, though. TextMate’s support for esoteric language grammars is second to none and last time I checked some of mine depended on features not implemented in Sublime Text.