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I'm pretty happy with TextMate 2 at this point - pretty regular updates, mature eco system, continuous improvement and its open source.

atmosx 12y ago
The TM2 phenomenon is something weird. TM had a huge traction when it was payware. Then it stalled, then it went open-source and everybody started looking for a new payware solution. Apparently some people, still believe the theory that all you need to know about a product is on the price tag, which is absolutely false (e.g. emacs/vim have no price but are exceptional programmig editors, hardly matched by payware solutions). Anyway, it's good to have choices.
- frou_dh 12y ago
  By my memory, the looking-for-an-alternative phase began long before the surprise open-sourcing.
- yoklov 12y ago
  I don't think anyone saw the open source version coming. Development had totally halted for several years before that happened.
- jonstewart 12y ago
  I switched to Sublime because it was far faster and had the killer feature of offering a consistent UI between Linux, MacOS X, and Windows.
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  > TM had a huge traction when it was payware. Then it stalled, then it went open-source and everybody started looking for a new payware solution. IIRC -- and I was never a TM user but was following it from the outside -- search for a TM replacement started before the open-sourcing; once TM became popular, people started looking for a cross-platform equivalent (because even lots of people who are primarily OSX users don't do all their editing there) and as the perceptions was that development was stalling, an even more people were searching for alternatives. The open-sourcing was sometime after that. I don't think ST has been adopted because it is payware (that is, I don't think a significant force in its adoption is a preference for paid over free software), I think its been widely adopted because its features well match what a lot of people are looking for in an editor, and they are willing to pay for it.
emehrkay 12y ago
We need split window/panes and TM2 would be perfect for me.

atmosx 12y ago

The TM2 phenomenon is something weird. TM had a huge traction when it was payware. Then it stalled, then it went open-source and everybody started looking for a new payware solution. Apparently some people, still believe the theory that all you need to know about a product is on the price tag, which is absolutely false (e.g. emacs/vim have no price but are exceptional programmig editors, hardly matched by payware solutions). Anyway, it's good to have choices.

frou_dh 12y ago
By my memory, the looking-for-an-alternative phase began long before the surprise open-sourcing.
yoklov 12y ago
I don't think anyone saw the open source version coming. Development had totally halted for several years before that happened.
jonstewart 12y ago
I switched to Sublime because it was far faster and had the killer feature of offering a consistent UI between Linux, MacOS X, and Windows.
dragonwriter 12y ago
> TM had a huge traction when it was payware. Then it stalled, then it went open-source and everybody started looking for a new payware solution. IIRC -- and I was never a TM user but was following it from the outside -- search for a TM replacement started before the open-sourcing; once TM became popular, people started looking for a cross-platform equivalent (because even lots of people who are primarily OSX users don't do all their editing there) and as the perceptions was that development was stalling, an even more people were searching for alternatives. The open-sourcing was sometime after that. I don't think ST has been adopted because it is payware (that is, I don't think a significant force in its adoption is a preference for paid over free software), I think its been widely adopted because its features well match what a lot of people are looking for in an editor, and they are willing to pay for it.

emehrkay 12y ago

We need split window/panes and TM2 would be perfect for me.