Yeah, 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 creat

Yeah, 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.)