MacroMates Blog

> Even still, TextMate is a substantially more carefully designed tool. Do people still actually use TextMate? Judging by their website [1], for example the screenshots taken under an ancient version of OS X, I thought it'd been abandoned years ago. The last post on the blog is in October 2014. [1]: https://macromates.com [2]: http://blog.macromates.com

Railscasts was really useful when I was learning Rails, so there's no begrudging Ryan. But still, part of me has to wonder, how much of this is TextMate Syndrome[1]? By which I mean, how much did Railscasts end up earning? I was signed up for about a year -- $108. Ignoring those who would pay their personal money, and just considering those who could expense it (a whopping $9 per month!), I have always just assumed (but don't know) than many thousands of others must have subscribed. Making hundreds of thousands of dollars more than you expected does really make it harder to keep working on some nerd shit, instead of... not doing that. [1]: http://blog.macromates.com/2006/year-in-review/

If you’re the same felix as the comment author of the following comment, then it seems you meant to suggest it, but never did: LaunchBar style file opening ! You are a god ! I was going to suggest this as a feature. You have saved us thousands of boring hours clicking on triangles. Source: http://blog.macromates.com/2005/elevating-the-standard/#comment-27 The feature in LaunchBar was btw an evolution of the LaunchBar author having a dozen shell scripts (or aliases) a la “ps=open -a PhotoShop” that he called from a terminal to quickly open his various applications and then later realized it could be automated.

Ah, my bad, I must have set that up myself. According to this[1] stack overflow post, the vim key bindings for move back and forward work by default (which is news to me), or you can set up the alt left and right behaviour by following the instructions here[2]. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81272/is-there-any-way-in-the-os-x-… [2] http://blog.macromates.com/2006/word-movement-in-terminal/

I suppose the referenced blog post by the TextMate author Allan Odgaard is quite old (2009), but boy it sure has eery similarities with the development of cloud sync for Things: A beloved product. Fans wondering whether to hold tight or jump ship for some less polished but actively improving alternative. Awkward blog posts in the interim. I do wish the best for both, because I am a fan of both products. I wonder if a cushion of money from creating a successful product causes passion burnout for some of these developers. Direct link to Allan's post: http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/

It's a hoax, folks: http://blog.macromates.com/ There's an extra 'c' in the submitter's URL.

> TextMate the backward search is bound to Control-Shift-S, a key combo that's torture to type compared to Control-R, that I can't remember to save my life, and that AFAIK cannot be changed… It can be changed absolutely trivially. See http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/key_bindings and also http://blog.macromates.com/2005/key-bindings-for-switchers/ > I've got my emacs rigged so that, when I type source code, I don't need to press Shift to get symbols out of the top row of keys instead of digits. This is very easy to accomplish in TextMate. > Plus, you get folks like Steve Yegge, working in his spare time to make your editor better. 10% of that guy's time is worth a fortune, and there's more where he came from! The problem with a closed-source editor is that there's only one or two people who can fix or improve the core code. The vast majority of TextMate’s functionality is in open-source bundles, which you or anyone else can freely edit, and which hundreds of people are constantly working to improve.

I use TM2 regularly and really like it for these reasons. My only real gripe, and why I might switch to ST3 at some point, is auto complete. TM technically has code completion[1], but I've never found it particularly useful compared to the popup style that ST and XCode use. [1] http://blog.macromates.com/2012/clever-completion/

Blog post explaining why: http://blog.macromates.com/2012/textmate-2-at-github/

Where? On http://macromates.com/ I just see a download to a 30 day trial version of TextMate 1.5.11. After googling, I found http://blog.macromates.com/2011/textmate-2-0-alpha/ which is from 2011 and provides a TextMate 2.0 alpha (r8930) download which also requires a licence key.

For textmate there is 2.0 alpha actively updated: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/textmate-2-0-alpha/

TextMate 2 has `rmate` which lets you edit a remote file from a terminal session: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/mate-and-rmate/

And a week late on the TextMate 2 announcement: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/whats-next/

ah I remember when I was excited http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/ :-) Hope the alpha will all make us forget the release time. The bar is very high though.

Things like a blog post in late 2006 promising support for something I've wanted in the app without hacks in TM 2.0. Now that I think about how that's almost half a decade ago, I'm feeling even more jaded than usual about TM 2.0's existence. http://blog.macromates.com/2006/faking-cjk-support/

Yes, they do. From what I recall, they are developing version 2.0 in parallel. Relevant post from their blog: http://blog.macromates.com/2010/why-2-0-is-not-developed-in-the-open/

You can fix that in 2 minutes: http://blog.macromates.com/2006/word-movement-in-terminal/

Not sure what features you are looking for, but Textmate has a Git Bundle that gives you access to a pretty good range of git functions. (It's what I use for all of my non-cmd-line or github git interactions) http://blog.macromates.com/2008/git-bundle/ GitNub OSX: http://github.com/Caged/gitnub/wiki There is also GitK

Allan was saying "the end is in sight" 6 months ago. http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/ This really reminds me of a series of blog posts by Chad Fowler, warning against the "big rewrite." http://chadfowler.com/2006/12/27/the-big-rewrite Now he says the next version will be out "maybe in 6 more months if everything goes right." In other words: "I have absolutely no idea when or if I'm ever going to finish it." Which, of course, is fine. It's his project and he has every right to develop/mismanage it as he sees fit. But I got tired of waiting for basic things like split-window to be implemented and went back to vim a while ago. If 2.0 ever comes out I'll definitely check it out but for now I'm happily using vim.

Unfortunately, not really http://blog.macromates.com/2006/elastic-tabs/ Who else has noticed that textmate has stagnated from 2006-2008

Appears to work pretty well. Lots of positive buzz from others about this: http://daringfireball.net/2008/03/expandrive http://blog.macromates.com/2008/expandrive-seamless-sftp-mounts/

See: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/lion-notes/