Textmate 2: “I’m not dead yet!”
It’s odd how something that seems like a perfect piece of software will start to aggravate you if it goes stale for long enough. I would be thrilled with a Textmate 1.6 that fixes a few bugs1, since it’s still a capable editor. So, two years after 1.5 is released, I go hunting for news:
There is no ETA, and I won’t speak about timing before I am certain I can provide an (alpha/beta) release within the next month… So put TM 2.0 up there with Duke Nukem Forever and be positively surprised the day it is released :)
Uh oh. I smell Second System effect. Peter Haza’s reports from the TextMate IRC channel earlier this year confirm it, listing many new features and saying it’s a complete rewrite. Hopefully Allan Odgaard doesn’t feel like Textmate 2 needs to be featureful enough to justify the wait, or the wait could never end.
- Multi-file search and replace bugs, especially. Argh. [↩]
Nov 27 2008
10:11 pm
I like the idea of Textmate, but not the implementation. So maybe 2.0 will be enough of a change that I’ll like it, but not enough that it takes forever…
Nov 28 2008
11:07 am
I wasn’t excited by Textmate until I started to make use of the bundles.
Jan 26 2009
1:50 pm
For my part I’d love a “TextMate 1.9″ that was 110% stable. It’s great now but it does have plenty of minor quirks.
rs
Mar 18 2009
11:03 pm
The bundles are certainly great, and they’re what’s been keeping me in TextMate. Even so, I’m poking at Aquamacs Emacs again — it has a steeper learning curve and there’s nothing like TM’s bundle repository, but it doesn’t usually require a lot of effort with Google to find new “modes” for Emacs which are pretty sophisticated. (And it does an awful lot out of the box, including FTP support and Subversion support.) And it’s, you know, stable, and has a few features I’ve been gritting my teeth over TM not supporting.
Even so, I’m sort of hoping TM 2.0 comes out before I re-acclimate myself to Emacs. Given how much tweaking Emacs needs, that shouldn’t be too difficult. Right?… *crickets chirp* hmm.