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I know some Mac users who've said they would switch to Linux if there were a TextMate-like editor available. This could be it.
by sqs 18y ago
I know some Mac users who've said they would switch to Linux if there were a TextMate-like editor available. This could be it.
- barredo 18y agoI am one of those, I stay in MacOSX because: MacOSX itself, Textmate, Transmit, Things and a other number of Apps that makes my work much easier.
- dhotson 18y agoI'd recommend jEdit. It's my editing weapon of choice for OSX, Linux and Windows. By default it's a bit plain, but the plugins available are fantastic: http://taat.pl/en/jedit/ http://taat.pl/en/jedit/ Download it here: http://www.jedit.org/ http://www.jedit.org/
- axod 18y agoI'd second that. Used jEdit for years, and thought I'd give TextMate a try... not impressed, so I may switch back to jEdit now.
- jpd 18y agoI tried JEdit like two years ago or so and found it to be an excellent editor, but that the startup time of approx. 10 seconds was unbearable. Have they fixed that yet?
- jhawk28 18y agoYes, they created a "JEdit server": http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/starting.html http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/starting.html It keeps an instance running so startup time is smaller.
- proee 18y agojEdit is the BEST. The hypersearch capabilities and windowing options are first class. Three cheers for jEdit.
- fendale 18y agoI don't get why people are building these fancy new editors - You can get both Emacs and Vim to behave Textmate like in many ways. They are both usable everywhere, including in a terminal. No matter which editor you want to use, you have to learn it and it takes time. A few years back I decided between Emacs and Textmate and learned Emacs - the main reason was because I can still use it when I am forced into a terminal or Windows.
- peregrine 18y agoNot everyone is a huge fan of re-learning how to type. Cause that's really how your doing it, with all the chording and such. Some of us are just used to typing in a box and hitting file->save to save. People create new editors cause there is a need to fill.
- parbo 18y agoA standard Emacs install fulfills that requirement nicely.
- eli 18y agoThe fact that you listed two be-all end-all text editors suggests that neither of them is the perfect solution for everyone...
- fendale 18y agoOK, good point. But isn't writing a text editor one of those garden path problems - a near never ending amount of work to get to just what exists already? I guess I also wonder what inspires developers to start new text editor projects too! Perhaps its just dis-satisfaction with what is there already.
- gnaritas 18y agoThere's a reason you have to be convinced to learn emacs or vi, the user experience is horrible until after you've finished climbing a learning cliff. They work differently than just about every other text editor in the world because they're so old that they don't by default use modern hotkeys people are accustomed to. Any debate about them being better really misses the point, it's the dvorak querty argument all over. Better doesn't matter as much as familiar to new users. Textmate is immediately useful to a new user and feels like a modern editor. Emacs and vi look and feel archaic and require too much effort to feel productive in. That's my two cents anyway after many attempts to use both. Can't stand vi, can get by with emacs just don't really dig it. For quick editing in a shell I just use nano because it's usually just editing of config files.
- gdt 18y agoEver tried Scribes? http://scribes.sourceforge.net/ http://scribes.sourceforge.net/ It has been around for a while, and I think is the closest thing to TextMate under the Gnome environment.
- macco 18y agoNo Scribes is a unique editor of its own. It shares the snippet system with textmate. But it has a rather radical aproach in reducing on the basics.