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More saving graces for TextMate 1 even today: It is right at home on OS X and also acknowledges the usefulness of UNIX. / It has no learning curve. / It require
by gurkendoktor 14y ago
More saving graces for TextMate 1 even today: It is right at home on OS X and also acknowledges the usefulness of UNIX. / It has no learning curve. / It requires zero configuration to be perfectly usable. / The shortcuts are as intuitive as it gets. / The only shortcut that I found weird was "cmd+T", and that one has been widely copied.
If you say that another editor should have been as successful, then what do you mean? That TextMate users have never heard of vim, emacs or ST2? That developers have been lazy and should have out-done TextMate (which ST2 arguably did)? I think this as clear of a deserved success as it gets - it's a programmer's editor and people decided it was the best one to program in.