Comments on: TextMate 1.0

By: toxicsoftware.com » Mini TextMate review

toxicsoftware.com » Mini TextMate review — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:19:07 +0000

[...] http://mjtsai.com/blog/2004/10/06/textmate-10/ [...]

By: Switching to TextMate

Switching to TextMate — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:04:49 +0000

[...] I’ve been watching TextMate since late 2004. My first reaction was similar to Michael Tsai’s observations around the same time; “not quite right.” [...]

By: jacobolus

jacobolus — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:31:15 +0000

Whoops, that last comment killed the link I put in. Here goes:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/BasicEventHandling/Tasks/TextDefaultsAndBindings.html

By: jacobolus

jacobolus — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:30:45 +0000

It's been a while now, but as I found this in a google search, I thought it worth adding:

Andrei, Cocoa does use a kill ring, and you can even make it bigger than one item with the following command:

defaults write -g NSTextKillRingSize -string 10

or whatever you want other than 10.

Also, one of the most useful commands of all:

defaults write -g NSRepeatCountBinding -string "^u"

makes it so that "Ctrl-u + number + keystroke" will do whatever the selector is for that keystroke number times. So "C-u 8 Ret" will insert 8 blank lines, "C-u 20 upArrow" will move the insertion point up 20 lines, etc.

See:

By: Warren Brian Noronha

Warren Brian Noronha — Sun, 15 May 2005 17:49:40 +0000

I have just moved to a mac. I have always wanted to check out whats the buzz with TextMate. I have been using TextMate for a while now. But for some reason I always end up using Emacs. But its a pretty good editor. Not as powerful as Emacs though...

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:45:13 +0000

A review from MacZealots.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 04:49:56 +0000

Cameron: Aren't all text editors for hand coders? What you're describing is a class of tool, of which there are several. The fact that you used UltraEdit and now feel at home in TextMate seems to support the idea that TextMate is for switchers...

By: Cameron Eddingsworth

Cameron Eddingsworth — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:46:28 +0000

TextMate isnt designed for switchers, its designed for hand coders. I used to use UltraEdit on windows, and VI in a shell. I bought a mac when OSX was released. BBEdit never did it for me, and there was and is nothing like ultraedit for OSX. I tried Jedit years ago, but its just too slow and not elegant at all. TextMate immediately felt like a coders tool, it works right, doenst get in your way; feels small and light, and its frigteningly extensible.

It will take over everything, that is for sure.

You can tell alot about a person from what editor they use. Certainly the people who are taking to TextMate are the serious, experienced coders of high repute, whilst those that do not, are the mac inured.

In other words...

Let the New Religious Wars begin!

By: kidbrax

kidbrax — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:58:07 +0000

SMultron and skEdit are both very promising editors as well. Smultron is open-source and skEdit is only $20.

By: Raena

Raena — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:33:33 +0000

Ohh, my mistake.

My search for the One True Text Editor goes on.

For it being a 'switcher' tool, I would have thought messing with keymappings and shortcuts would be a nice addition to the hypothetical preferences dialogue.